A well-made B thriller.
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07/25/02
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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Reviews for Breakdown
[Mostow is] able to sustain a nightmarish reality that is at once gripping and chilling.
06/05/02
If you liked Hand That Rocks the Cradle, or Eye for An Eye, you are gonna like Breakdown.
04/17/02
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
Some movies have such good set-ups, that they are virtually assured to be something of a let-down when it comes time for the follow-through. Jonathan Mostow's Breakdown is such a movie.
02/27/01
A fairly taut thriller that gets into gear by stealing parts from Duel, The Vanishing and Deliverance.
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01/01/00
When you really think about Breakdown -- and believe me, that would probably require spending more time thinking about the movie than the filmmakers did -- it doesn't make much sense.
01/01/00
An incredibly tense, gripping, white-knuckle treat.
01/01/00
A terrifying movie that presses the right buttons early on and then capitalizes on your vulnerability.
01/01/00
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
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01/01/00
Just about worth the price of admission.
01/01/00
If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today and working with a '90s sensibility, he'd be proud to claim it as his own.
01/01/00
A long, drawn-out bore where the fate of each character is all-but-inscribed on his or her forehead.
01/01/00
Top CriticMostow knows his Hitchcock as well as his Spielberg.
01/01/00
Top CriticBreakdown gets the job done.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn example of what happens when a new filmmaker comes along with a fresh perspective and manages to squeeze some life back into a by-now formula plot.
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 CriticThe movie will make you feel sick, but in the nicest, most entertaining kind of way.
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