Breakdown

I first saw this movie when came out on video when i was nine years old, but i only saw the first 20-25 minutes of it and never saw it again until it was on HBO almost eight years later and... Full review

this was a very well directed action suspense it keeps you anxious untill you loose control i thought Kurt Russell was great... Full review

I've always liked Kurt Russell in whatever movie he was in, but this one was pretty intense and full of suspense. Very believable and I find myself wondering what I would do next if I were in his position. Was sitting... Full review

Breakdown is a rather suspenseful film as the viewer sympathizes with Kurt Russell's character throughout the entire motion picture. It is very fast-paced and will not leave you bored whatsoever. J.T. Walsh delivers well as a ruthless, ignorant villain. Over all,... Full review

I had to give this movie a C rating. I thought the acting, story, direction, was mediocre. The ending of the movie left allot to be desired. I expected much better. If your bored, watch it. If you dont have anything... Full review

This film definitely lives up to the title. Kurt Russel and the rest of the cast turn in great performances. The few action sequences that mostly happen at the end are well done. And the suspense keeps you on the edge... Full review

I love this movie. First of all, the movie is packaged very well. You can also relate very well to the movie. Which makes the movie that much better. Kurt Russell is awesome in this movie. It's a movie that almost... Full review

This movie delivers on every level. It has lots of suspense, a perfect story and everything imaginable. This movie should hav won an Oscar. It has an original plot and breathtaking suspense. The worst part of the movie is the it... Full review

Kurt Russell's best role ever. He plays Jeff Taylor who with his wife Amy are headed towards a new life when their car dies. So a helpful trucker gives Amy a lift while Jeff waits. Once Jeff figures out the problem... Full review

I was puzzled when I saw that some users had rated this movie with only a B-. For those of you who haven't seen this movie, you are really missing out. The movie is quite suspenseful. A couple's vehicle breaksdown in... Full review

As did such makers of classic "B" movies of the 1950s like Phil Karlson and Don Siegel, director Jonathan Mostow builds dramatic intensity and visceral suspense....The gutsy, cathartic "Breakdown" mercifully avoids the smug, arch quirkiness of such pseudo-thrillers as "Fargo" and....His precise and economical storytelling has a classical veneer that doesn't depend on gore.... ... Full Review

First-time director Jonathan Mostow, who also co-wrote the script, understands part of the equation for a successful action thriller.....But all comparisons to Hitchcock end as the plot grows increasingly implausible.....That's before the story gets downright silly..... ... Full Review

Film Critic BREAKDOWN is a taut little thriller, the kind of well-crafted yarn....If the (literal) cliffhanger climax is a bit overwrought --....There's no lofty theme here, or even spectacular effects --....The cast is equally strong.....one of the great American character actors, he appears everywhere and graces everything..... ... Full Review

Thus the movie is shorn of its one primitive gratification:....The movie's surrender to banality is all the more dispiriting....The film is at its best evoking the vanishing and Jeff's sense of helpless paranoia..... ... Full Review

Walsh is good here, but he could sleepwalk through a role of quiet menace like this one. "Breakdown': Schnook turns hero Relentless tension, but not much else, in drama of wife's disappearance ... Full Review

Jonathan Mostow is living proof that good things happen to people who sit in their underwear watching Oprah . Which is exactly how the 35-year-old Harvard grad was spending his days three years ago when he decided to write Breakdown... ... Full Article

A couple is moving cross-country and they break down in the middle of the dessert. A friendly truck driver passes by and offers to give them a lift to the nearest phone so they can call a tow truck. The ... Full Article

Breakdown - La trappola Tit.or.: Breakdown.Regia : Jonathan Mostow.Soggetto : Jonathan Mostow.Sceneggiatura : Jo nathan Mostow & Sam Montgomery . Fotografia : Douglas Milsome. ... Full Article

La pelcula cuenta con un planteamiento sencillo: una pareja que recorre las carreteras de los EEUU en su todoterreno rojo, es vctima de una situacin imprevista. ... Full Article

Jeff Taylor (Kurt Russel) und seine Frau Amy (Kathleen Quinlan) sind im Auto vom Norden nach Kalifornien unterwegs.Der Wagen macht mitten in der Wste Probleme und ist nicht mehr zum weiterbewegen. ... Full Article