was on tnt on a day i skipped school
it was phenominal
wait no that was duel
but i love this movie
Saw it in the theater back in 97
I still remember that night because this is such an amazing movie.
One of Kurt Russels best and that's saying something he has done a lot of great movies.
It's a great little movie. I do feel the ending doesn't quite live up to what came before. Once he retrieves his wife and they start chasing them, it just doesn't feel as gripping as everything else. I don't know if that's just inevitable with the plot or if they could have improved it to make it more gripping. I'm kind of nitpicking though.
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I'm recommending "Breakdown,'' but I have a problem with the closing scene I mentioned above. It involves a situation in which a villain is disabled and powerless--yet a coup de grace is administered. There is (or was) a tradition in Hollywood thrillers that the heroes in movies like this kill only in self-defense. By ending as it does, "Breakdown'' disdains such moral boundaries.
I noticed, interestingly, that no one in the audience cheered when that final death took place. I felt a kind of collective wince. Maybe that indicates we still have an underlying decency that rejects the eye-for-an-eye values of this film. "Breakdown'' is a fine thriller, and its ending is unworthy of i
Well I'm not referring to the death of J.T. Walsh's character at the end. I had no problem with them killing him, in fact if anything they showed mercy to a murderer who was willing to steal from them and kill them, by giving him a quick death dropping that truck on him. I was referring to how the film sees out its final chapter with Russell and his wife escaping and being chased down. For one thing it seems a bit rushed and over rather abruptly from when they flee the house to moment on the bridge.
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