Breakdown (1997)
Breakdown is an American adventure mystery thriller film directed and co-written by Jonathan Mostow. The film stars Kurt Russell, J. T. Walsh, and Kathleen Quinlan. A man looks for his missing wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.
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March 03, 2006
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.
November 06, 2002
A taut suspense film.
January 01, 2000
A long, drawn-out bore where the fate of each character is all-but-inscribed on his or her forehead.
October 28, 2005
A taut, well-crafted suspense film that delivers the paranoid goods.
July 06, 2010
Although Breakdown certainly resembles a compacted version of George Sluizer's Americanized remake of his 1988 Dutch/French psychothriller, it actually owes a lot more to The Hitcher in terms of tone, atmosphere, and execution.
May 07, 2003
[Kurt Russell's] lack of energy afflicts the film as much as its director's lack of ideas.
January 01, 2000
Pretty good.
July 06, 2009
...one of the most effective and flat-out engrossing thrillers within recent cinematic history...
January 07, 2005
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 ...
January 01, 2000
Taut, skillful and surgically effective.
October 03, 2005
An engrossing, exciting nailbiter that makes the most of every single one of its efficient 95 minutes.
January 01, 2000
Breakdown gets the job done.
