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

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

[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 taut suspense film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 6, 2002

Mostow knows his Hitchcock as well as his Spielberg.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A 96- minute thrill ride that twists and turns before accelerating to a wonderfully overwrought finale.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Breakdown gets the job done.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Taut, skillful and surgically effective.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

An incredibly tense, gripping, white-knuckle treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Pretty good.

| Jan 1, 2000

A classic summer movie that has smarts plus sizzle.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Many will note echoes of 'The Vanishing,' 'Deliverance' and most of all, Steven Spielberg's 'Duel,' with Mostow displaying much of the craft that Spielberg ambushed us with in the 1971 온라인카지노추천 movie that put him on the map.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Breakdown has plenty of deft action sequences, and what they add up to is nifty garbage disposal, with all of us -- characters, filmmakers, viewers -- ultimately spiraling down the same drain.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: A- | May 2, 1997