Its simplicity is striking, and because the central premise is wholly believable, the sensational and impossible aspects become equally genuine as the film goes along.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 1, 2022

Clocking in at roughly ninety minutes, Mostow's film plays like a gritty yet glossy entry into the universally relatable Ordinary Person in Extraordinary Peril subgenre

| Oct 13, 2021

A turbo-charged thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2021

Despite a few hiccups, Breakdown is a solid movie and Paramount Pictures made a very good choice adding to their Paramount Presents collection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2021

Breakdown is a 90s thriller through and through.

| Sep 20, 2021

Dabbles in a few horror movie tricks and actioner clichés that weaken the momentum, but it nonetheless refuses to lose all of its steam.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 10, 2020

Sometimes a tightly wound watch - with a little bit of filigree and flourish to set it apart - is all you need. The sort of low-and-slow simmer that Blumhouse might now push into 1,000 theaters at best.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2017

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2010

...one of the most effective and flat-out engrossing thrillers within recent cinematic history...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 6, 2009

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 3, 2006

A taut, well-crafted suspense film that delivers the paranoid goods.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 28, 2005

An engrossing, exciting nailbiter that makes the most of every single one of its efficient 95 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 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 ...

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jan 7, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 21, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003

[Kurt Russell's] lack of energy afflicts the film as much as its director's lack of ideas.

| May 7, 2003

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2003

A well-crafted thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2003

Pure free-fall fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2003