
Jeff and Amy Taylor are moving to California and must drive across the country. When they find themselves stranded in the middle of a desert with hardly anyone or anything around, their trip comes to a sudden halt. Amy had taken a ride with a friendly trucker to a small diner to call for help, but after a long time, Jeff becomes worried. He finds that no one in the diner has seen or heard from his wife. When he finds the trucker who gave Amy the ride, the trucker swears he ha... (Full plot summary below)
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Jeff and Amy Taylor are moving to California and must drive across the country. When they find themselves stranded in the middle of a desert with hardly anyone or anything around, their trip comes to a sudden halt. Amy had taken a ride with a friendly trucker to a small diner to call for help, but after a long time, Jeff becomes worried. He finds that no one in the diner has seen or heard from his wife. When he finds the trucker who gave Amy the ride, the trucker swears he has never seen her. Now Jeff must attempt to find his wife, who has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. But who can he trust?
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| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...one of the most effective and flat-out engrossing thrillers within recent cinematic history... |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackBucking the lava tide of computer special effects gushing out of Hollywood this season, the makers of Breakdown use old-fashioned ingenuity -- plus a compelling star, a fast- paced mystery and a deadpan villain -- to come up with a sizzler. |
| The A.V. ClubStephen ThompsonBreakdown is just a skillfully constructed, smartly conceived, escapist thriller that does just about everything right. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellHis Breakdown is a tough, vigorous exercise in pure action, shot with throwback expertise and, most refreshingly, without special effects. |
| Los Angeles TimesJack MathewsMostow, with his first feature, has made such a convincing, fast-paced, edge-of-the-seat thriller that you'd swear you'd never seen anything quite like it. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyIn his bigscreen feature debut, director and co-writer Jonathan Mostow displays real flair for visceral cinema while adroitly sidestepping many of the usual tripwires of this sort of film, particularly silly coincidences, stupid decisions on the part of characters with whom you're supposed to identify, and superheroics performed by ordinary people. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkThe great thing about Breakdown is simply that what you see is what you get. Want 90 minutes of edge of the seat tension? You got it. Want an unravelling nightmare that stays with you long after the movie? You got it. |
| Cincinnati EnquirerMargaret A. McGurkA spare, solid, sharply paced tale of terror that does what a thriller is supposed to do -- scare the bejesus out of you. |
| Rochester Democrat and ChronicleJack GarnerIf Alfred Hitchcock were alive today and working with a '90s sensibility, he'd be proud to claim it as his own. |
| Movie HabitMarty MapesFrom the beginning, the movie grabs your attention and doesn't let go. |