Breakdown (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Breakdown |
| Original title | Breakdown |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonathan Mostow |
| script | Jonathan Mostow, Sam Montgomery |
| production |
Dino De Laurentiis , Martha De Laurentiis |
| music | Basil Poledouris |
| camera | Douglas Milsome |
| cut |
Derek Brechin , Kevin Stitt |
| occupation | |
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Breakdown is an American action - thriller from 1997 to the Jonathan Mostow directed, story and screenplay writing.
action
Jeffrey and Amy Taylor are planning to move from Massachusetts to California and are driving through the interior of the United States . Jeffrey is inattentive for a moment and almost collides with the pickup of a driver named Earl, who later berates him at a gas station for it. After a car breaks down on the way, the trucker Warren takes Amy to the next rest stop with a phone. Meanwhile, Jeffrey finds and fixes a loose connector on the vehicle. He drives to the rest stop without meeting his wife there; nobody saw them either. As he drives on and catches up with the truck, Warren tells Sheriff Boyd, who happened to be passing by and stopped by Jeffrey, that he has never seen Jeffrey. Boyd inspects the cab and trailer, but there is no evidence of Amy.
Back at the rest stop, Jeffrey receives mysterious hints from a man named Billy, including that the police cannot be trusted. Jeffrey follows up on Billy's lead, but is captured by him, Warren, Earl, and a fourth man named Al. Warren forces Jeffrey to withdraw a large ransom from the nearest bank, after which he has to go handcuffed into Earl's car. Jeffrey only had a measly amount in the bank, however, and when Earl angrily noticed Jeffrey's deception, Jeffrey has just freed himself. He stabs Earl with a letter opener, overpowers him and forces him to make statements about his wife. However, Boyd stops the car and is gunned down by Earl. When Earl wants to execute Jeffrey, the dying Boyd shoots him. Jeffrey had found out from Earl that he wanted to meet Warren at a rest stop and is hiding there unnoticed on his truck. Warren drives to his remote farm and in the barn he, Al and Billy get the wrapped up Amy from a hideout under the truck. Jeffrey watches from the attic as Amy is placed in a lockable freezer in a dungeon in the floor of the barn, where she is supposed to suffocate. He hears that the gang had previously robbed and killed travelers of their vehicles and property in the same way.
In the house, Jeffrey threatens the kidnappers and Warren's unsuspecting wife with a gun. When Warren's young son shows up with a rifle and Jeffrey knocks it aside, Billy escapes. While Jeffrey keeps the rest of them in check, he lets Warren's wife, Amy free, and then locks the group up in the dungeon. Jeffrey and Amy are looking for an escape vehicle. Meanwhile, Billy frees the other imprisoned.
The three kidnappers pursue the couple who escaped in a car in three vehicles. Billy and Al have an accident, Warren rams his tractor Jeffrey on a bridge, the two vehicles hang over the abyss. Warren falls in the fight with Jeffrey. Jeffrey manages to get Amy out of the car before the tractor crashes and Warren is buried under him.
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes scored 41 positive and 10 negative reviews. Metacritic counted 13 positive, 5 mixed and 1 negative publications. On the Internet Movie Database page, the weighted average rating of 6.9 out of 10 was determined from 46,510 users.
"[...] Breakdown is a 96-minute roller coaster ride that twists and turns before a wonderfully over-the-top finale."
"[Kurt Russell's] lack of energy plagues the film as much as the lack of imagination of its director."
" Breakdown is tight, skilful and operationally effective [...]."
“A powerful thriller that is outstanding in terms of staging and photography; at the same time a study of time, space and loneliness. "
"[...] simple but nerve-wracking thriller"
Web links
- Breakdown in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Breakdown at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Breakdown at Metacritic (English)
- Breakdown in the online film database
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - R-Rated from Breakdown at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the American version, Amy notices that Warren is still moving and puts the automatic gearbox of the getaway car into neutral so that the truck loosens and falls on the seriously injured Warren. In the German theatrical version (and all subsequent home cinema versions and the TV broadcasts before 2014) the uncoupling was cut out: The vigilante justice became an accident.
- ↑ Breakdown on rottentomatoes.com , accessed March 26, 2020
- ↑ Breakdown on metacritic.com , accessed March 26, 2020
- ↑ Breakdown on imdb.com , accessed March 26, 2020
- ↑ Critique in the San Francisco Chronicle
- ↑ Critique in the Washington Post
- ↑ Critique in the Chicago Sun-Times
- ↑ Breakdown. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Breakdown on cinema.de