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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.
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
Reviews for Breakdown
Top CriticA fairly taut thriller that gets into gear by stealing parts from Duel, The Vanishing and Deliverance.
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06/03/06
Top CriticWhen 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.
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A taut, well-crafted suspense film that delivers the paranoid goods.
10/28/05
An incredibly tense, gripping, white-knuckle treat.
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Top CriticA terrifying movie that presses the right buttons early on and then capitalizes on your vulnerability.
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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.
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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
A well-made B thriller.
07/25/02
[Mostow is] able to sustain a nightmarish reality that is at once gripping and chilling.
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...one of the most effective and flat-out engrossing thrillers within recent cinematic history...
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04/21/04
Nifty morality play about the invidious vices of envy and showing off.
08/26/02
Just about worth the price of admission.
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If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today and working with a '90s sensibility, he'd be proud to claim it as his own.
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