Breakdown

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May 2nd, 1997

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Suspense/Thriller, Action/Adventure

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A married couple while driving through an old desert town when suddenly their car (you guessed it) breaks down the wife takes a ride in a passing truck to go into town to go call for help. the...

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Directed: Jonathan Mostow Written: Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey, Jack Noseworthy

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The story has been done before but still an ok movie not the great of a movie most of the action doesnt have anything to do with the movie at all most of all the bads guys of the movie are just real easy to spot well for mey anyway my rating of...
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[+] San Francisco Chronicle

100

Bucking the lava tide of computer special effects gushing out of Hollywood this season, the makers of Breakdown use old-fashioned ingenuity -- plus a compelling star, a fast- paced mystery and a deadpan villain -- to come up with a sizzler.
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[+] Entertainment Weekly

91

Breakdown feels at first so casual, so comfortable with its own small expectations (a good but unglamorous cast, a sturdy but unspectacular plot), that the authentic feelings of suspense are a surprise.
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[+] LA Weekly

90

Breakdown recalls so many good movies, in such unpredictable order, that by the end it simply stands on its own, a solid, logical, edge-of-the-seat sluiceway of escape and pursuit.
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[+] Los Angeles Times

90

Mostow, with his first feature, has made such a convincing, fast-paced, edge-of-the-seat thriller that you'd swear you'd never seen anything quite like it.
by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
[+] The Onion (A.V. Club)

90

Breakdown is just a skillfully constructed, smartly conceived, escapist thriller that does just about everything right.
by Stephen Thompson | Read Full Review »
[+] The New York Times

90

His Breakdown is a tough, vigorous exercise in pure action, shot with throwback expertise and, most refreshingly, without special effects.
by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
[+] Variety

90

In his bigscreen feature debut, director and co-writer Jonathan Mostow displays real flair for visceral cinema while adroitly sidestepping many of the usual tripwires of this sort of film, particularly silly coincidences, stupid decisions on the part of characters with whom you're supposed to identify, and superheroics performed by ordinary people.
by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
[+] USA Today

88

Breakdown exploits so many traditional thriller situations that any suspense fan vet can easily devote a hand to counting off the predecessors it plunders. [02May1997 Pg 12.D]
by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
[+] Empire

80

The great thing about Breakdown is simply that what you see is what you get. Want 90 minutes of edge of the seat tension? You got it. Want an unravelling nightmare that stays with you long after the movie? You got it.
by Bob McCabe | Read Full Review »
[+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

75

Breakdown is a taut little thriller, the kind of well-crafted yarn that sets itself attainable goals and then meets them.
by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
[+] Christian Science Monitor

75

It starts slowly, but builds to a spectacular climax with hearty sound effects and deftly directed stunts.
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[+] Chicago Sun-Times

75

Breakdown is a fine thriller, and its ending is unworthy of it.
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[+] Washington Post

70

Jonathon Mostow, who wrote the script and then directed the movie, travels mostly familiar backroads and crosses bridges when he comes to them, actually managing a pretty good cliff-hanging denouement on the latter.
by Richard Harrington | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

60

The movie's surrender to banality is all the more dispiriting because it gets off to such a good start.
by Stephen Hunter | Read Full Review »
[+] TV Guide

60

There are echoes of Stephen Spielberg's "Duel," as well as "Roadgames," "The Hitcher" and "The Hills Have Eyes," but director/cowriter Mostow isn't interested in hommages: He's just looking to crank up the suspense (not the in your face action, thank heavens), bit by miserable bit, and does a very nice job of it.
by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »

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