Breakdown

Pros: Suspenseful, Realistic.
Cons: A few weaker scenes towards end of the film.

Lately it seems suspense has turned into someone chasing someone else with a knife or something involving a car chase scene. It seems in recent years suspense has been shown in a tangible way, or something that you can see. I believe the best suspense is...

Pros: Performances by Russell, Quinlan, Walsh; story and direction by Mostow; paranoid, suspenseful atmosphere
Cons: Areas of trite dialogue; performance by Brinkley

"You left the toilet seat up again..."

In many marriages, a wife who attempts to rid her husband of his careless actions has often said this statement. In 1997's "Breakdown", yuppie Jeff Taylor (Kurt Russell) gets into more trouble than he...

Pros: Non stop suspense, great acting by Russell
Cons: You get really pi$$ed at the bad guys!

As stupid as this may sound, it took a few weeks before the thought ever occurred to me that the title of Breakdown was referring to the breakdown of Kurt Russell's jeep at the beginning that starts the whole ordeal. From the first time I watched...

Pros: Very dramatic.
Cons: Part of Amy not done all that emotionally

After seeing this film, I developed a fear of traveling out west. Although I have never actually traveled out to the more western part of this great country, I tell people I would never do so without a gun.

Anyways this film is an emotional...

Pros: good first third. Kurt Russell gets sexier every year
Cons: the last two thirds fall apart.

After their new Jeep dies on a dreary and desolate stretch of interstate in the middle of Arizona, a couple of well-to-do easterners accept the help of a kindly truckdriver. He offers them both a ride to the diner up the road, but the husband (played by...

Pros: great action sequences, Kurt Russell's superb performance
Cons: may be a little too graphic and fast-paced for younger viewers, can make you leary to go on long-distance drives... :o)

I saw Breakdown first in the theater, and then I bought it for my own video collection about a year ago. As a Kurt Russell fan, this was a truly incredible display of his many talents.

When the movie begins, Russell is a prissy little city...

Pros: Great acting and Storyline
Cons: Slightly cheesy action scenes thrown in

Why is it some of the best movies get overlooked in the theater? Movies like The Shawshank Redemption, A Time To Kill, and The Thing all get over shadowed by some goody goody feel good movie. Now don’t get me wrong movies like Forrest...

Pros: true suspense: it feels like it could actually happen to you
Cons: some folks might not buy it, I guess

You’re moving across the country with your wife. Suddenly, unexpectedly, your truck breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Thankfully, a trucker stops and offers to give you both a ride to the nearest town. Fearing having your new truck looted, you...

Pros: Russell and Quinlan; J.T. Walsh is a truly menacing heavy; general situation
Cons: Language and violence make this somewhat inappropriate for younger viewers

In a year that gave us THE LOST WORLD, AIR FORCE ONE, and CONTACT--good films all--it is amazing that the 1997 thriller BREAKDOWN, despite critical raves and sizeable box office, still managed to get overlooked by the majority of movie-goers. Those...

Pros: Great plot, acting, setting, very creepy, good action, psychological involvement, characters, realistic
Cons: Might be too slow for some, some corny dialog, still not enough action

At first glance the trailer for this movie makes it look like a high adrenaline action flick. Well, this little gem of a film is much more. Though some might complain that it is too slow and boring, I think the eery atmosphere Jon Mostow creates is quite...

Pros: Believable, suspenseful and great atmosphere
Cons: nothing major

I remember driving for hours through the desert when I drove across the south western up to the northwestern parts of the country. It's barren, empty wasteland, with little signs of civilization in sight. At any point you stopped you could see about 50...

Pros: Great acting, suspense
Cons: none

Breakdown is one of those movies that almost makes you forget you are watching a movie. While catching up on a few movies I had never seen, I rented Breakdown and Faceoff. I watched Faceoff first, a movie that is so far moved from reality it really...

Pros: great acting and story line
Cons: none

This movie is very exciting, and has many twists and turns.
A man and his wife are on vacation, and they get a rough looking trucker mad at them. He does something to their car while they're in the gas station, and they break down in the middle of...

Pros: Great action & suspense
Cons: Predictable in a couple ways

The obvious title "Breakdown" reminds you of a car breaking down, which is true of this movie. However, Kurt Russell's character comes close to having a mental breakdown when he realizes he wife is gone for good, at least that's what he...