Breakdown

But the kind of behavioral wildness inspired by all that brutal vastness has changed with the times. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

The storys setup is more entertaining than the payoff; as Hitchcock observed, suspense plays better than action. ( Read More )

Richard Harrington

Go to the Breakdown Page Breakdown By Richard Harrington Washington Post Staff Writer May 2, 1997 Poor Jeff (Kurt Russell): His Jeeps broken down on a cross country journey and his wife, Amy (Kathleen Quinlan), has gone missing in the same wide open Southwest where C. Thomas Howell encountered The Hitcher and where those poor college students made the cut in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. ( Read More )

Peter Stack

For all its relentless thriller momentum, Breakdown is not overly violent.The R rating is mostly for language, and the movie relies more on suspense than blood and gore. ( Read More )

Stephen Hunter

His lack of energy afflicts the film as much as its directors lack of ideas.The movies surrender to banality is all the more dispiriting because it gets off to such a good start. ( Read More )