Are we really supposed to empathize with the empathy-proof Kurt Russell? I was actually hoping that his character's wife had run away with the trucker ...
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01/07/05
Breakdown (1997)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:36
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A brainy and suspenseful -- if somewhat uneven -- thriller.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: After their new Jeep conks out on a desolate stretch of Arizona highway, a well-heeled Massachusetts couple accepts the help of a polite and seemingly honest trucker (J.T. Walsh), who drives the... [More]
Starring: Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey
Director: Jonathan Mostow
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01/01/00
[Mostow is] able to sustain a nightmarish reality that is at once gripping and chilling.
06/05/02
A terrifying movie that presses the right buttons early on and then capitalizes on your vulnerability.
01/01/00
Breakdown has plenty of deft action sequences, and what they add up to is nifty garbage disposal, with all of us -- characters, filmmakers, viewers -- ultimately spiraling down the same drain.
01/01/00
Top CriticTaut, skillful and surgically effective.
01/01/00
Top CriticA spare, solid, sharply paced tale of terror that does what a thriller is supposed to do -- scare the bejesus out of you.
10/15/02
Overall, you should enjoy Breakdown, but you'll leave with the feeling that it could have been done a little bit better.
01/01/00
It's a cool flick, with a good story, and it's worth paying full price. And I never say that about Kurt Russell movies.
10/24/01
A classic summer movie that has smarts plus sizzle.
01/01/00
Top CriticA fairly taut thriller that gets into gear by stealing parts from Duel, The Vanishing and Deliverance.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
An incredibly tense, gripping, white-knuckle treat.
01/01/00
If you liked Hand That Rocks the Cradle, or Eye for An Eye, you are gonna like Breakdown.
04/17/02
The film has a few interesting twists, but the movie's main flaws are its over-reliance on wild coincidences to advance the plot and a pace that is overwhelmingly slow until the very end.
01/01/00
Breakdown is mostly a testosterone fest, but it's a good one.
01/01/00
A taut, well-crafted suspense film that delivers the paranoid goods.
10/28/05
A first-rate nail-biter that packs more genuine white-knuckle moments into 100 minutes than a dozen overpriced volcano movies could ever dream of having.
03/03/06
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