Upon the breaking down of their car, Jim and Kayla, a young married couple, who in their way to California suffers from being stranded in the desert, so they receive the help from a truck driver, who seems to be a kidnapper.
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.
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.
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 ...
Reel Film Reviews
July 06, 2009
...one of the most effective and flat-out engrossing thrillers within recent cinematic history...
