Broken Bridges (2006)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 20
A cliched attempt at a feel-good drama, Broken Bridges is schmaltzy, predictable, and stiffly acted.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 8
A cliched attempt at a feel-good drama, Broken Bridges is schmaltzy, predictable, and stiffly acted.
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When a fading country music superstar Bo Price (Toby Keith) returns to his hometown for the funeral of his younger brother, a reunion with his high-school sweetheart drags the pain of the past into the present day and soon promises to change his life forever. Bo and Angela (Kelly Preston) have both lost the ones they love in a tragic accident, and now the time has come to say goodbye. For every end there is a new beginning though, and when Bo reunites with Angela and meets the daughter he has
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Country star Toby Keith makes his acting debut in this rickety heartland drama, which was produced by Country Music Television and panders shamelessly to the traditional-values crowd.
Top CriticIt's obviously intended as a star vehicle, but Broken Bridges turns out to be a rattletrap jalopy for country music performer Toby Keith.
A limp, timeworn tale of a drunken has-been country star (Keith) and a TV reporter he had and lost (Kelly Preston) who meet again after returning home because of a tragedy.
When you can get just as good on the Hallmark network, why drive all the way to a theater?
Any viewer who can't predict the outcome of this modest flick must not be familiar with a certain genre to which it is indebted: the made-for-TV movie.
At every turn, Broken Bridges is filled with clichéd predictability.
Good music, but how painfully obvious and familiar the story is, and how superficial the lines and character arcs.
The kind of trite material that seems better suited for the small screen than the big screen.
An imperfect but emotionally true and often magnificently acted drama.
Soundtrack sales seem to be the main motivation behind this corny and cliched Southern melodrama that marks the film debut of country music star Toby Keith.
It feels about as sincere and insightful as a Schlitz-induced rendition of Achy-Breaky Heart.
Director Goldmann, who cut his teeth directing videos for Shania Twain and Faith Hill, never misses a chance to punch-up an emotional scene with a contrived, heart-melting music performance by one or more of his stars.
Broken Bridges is wrapped tight in the cloak of good intentions, soft-pedaling tired tripe about redemption, reconciliation, and finding solace in the bottle.
The Country Music Channel's first foray into feature filmmaking is sickly sweet and thoroughly predictable.
It would have served Keith better to pick a project that didn't accentuate a character who stumbles around an aimless plot with the same confusion of Bruce Banner coming down from one of his 'smash' moods.
Broken Bridges is one of those movies where most scenes start with a character staring out over a pond, sitting on a porch, or looking at an old photograph, just waiting to reminisce with whoever sidles up next to them.
Strictly for fans of Keith, or drunk people with bemused contempt for same.
The most uncritical, red-state fans of the ridiculously imposing country star will get exactly the sort of thinly plotted, poorly dialogued, feel-good flick they expect, while anyone else will wonder why this film deserved a green light.
Keith remains as rigid as a bookcase.
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