Country star Toby Keith makes his acting debut in this rickety heartland drama, which was produced by Country Music Television and panders shamelessly to the traditional-values crowd.

| Jul 28, 2009

The kind of trite material that seems better suited for the small screen than the big screen.

| Original Score: C | Apr 1, 2007

An imperfect but emotionally true and often magnificently acted drama.

| Mar 1, 2007

Soundtrack sales seem to be the main motivation behind this corny and cliched Southern melodrama that marks the film debut of country music star Toby Keith.

Full Review | Oct 9, 2006

It feels about as sincere and insightful as a Schlitz-induced rendition of Achy-Breaky Heart.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 29, 2006

Director Goldmann, who cut his teeth directing videos for Shania Twain and Faith Hill, never misses a chance to punch-up an emotional scene with a contrived, heart-melting music performance by one or more of his stars.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2006

It's obviously intended as a star vehicle, but Broken Bridges turns out to be a rattletrap jalopy for country music performer Toby Keith.

Full Review | Sep 22, 2006

Broken Bridges is wrapped tight in the cloak of good intentions, soft-pedaling tired tripe about redemption, reconciliation, and finding solace in the bottle.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 22, 2006

The Country Music Channel's first foray into feature filmmaking is sickly sweet and thoroughly predictable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2006

When you can get just as good on the Hallmark network, why drive all the way to a theater?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2006

It would have served Keith better to pick a project that didn't accentuate a character who stumbles around an aimless plot with the same confusion of Bruce Banner coming down from one of his 'smash' moods.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 8, 2006

Broken Bridges is one of those movies where most scenes start with a character staring out over a pond, sitting on a porch, or looking at an old photograph, just waiting to reminisce with whoever sidles up next to them.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Sep 8, 2006

Strictly for fans of Keith, or drunk people with bemused contempt for same.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Sep 8, 2006

Any viewer who can't predict the outcome of this modest flick must not be familiar with a certain genre to which it is indebted: the made-for-온라인카지노추천 movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2006

The most uncritical, red-state fans of the ridiculously imposing country star will get exactly the sort of thinly plotted, poorly dialogued, feel-good flick they expect, while anyone else will wonder why this film deserved a green light.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 7, 2006

Keith remains as rigid as a bookcase.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 7, 2006

At every turn, Broken Bridges is filled with clichd predictability.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2006

Broken Bridges takes too many shortcuts and hits too many obvious notes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 7, 2006

Broken Bridges feels scrapped-together, like something that might have premiered on the old Turner South network.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2006

Terribly mawkish, like a Hallmark Hall of Fame 온라인카지노추천 movie. And not even a good 온라인카지노추천 movie.

| Original Score: D | Sep 6, 2006