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Tautly directed and superbly photographed, this crowd-pleasing thriller from 1997 is indebted to Steven Spielberg's Duel, but more closely resembles Dead Calm in its strengths and weaknesses. Kurt Russell plays a stressed-out husband whose wife (Kathleen Quinlan) disappears after their car breaks down in the desert. Tracking her whereabouts leads to an interstate theft and kidnapping ring, and as Russell pursues--and is pursued by--a vicious redneck played to perfection by J.T. Walsh (in one of his final film roles), the movie succumbs to several tense, but utterly conventional action sequences. That doesn't stop the movie from being an above-average nail-biter. It is so effectively directed by co-writer Jonathan Mostow that even the more surreal situations seem plausible and altogether unsettling. Russell's performance is key to the film's success--he's smart enough to be admirable, and we can readily identify with his frustration, confusion, and torment. Through him, Breakdown takes on the edgy quality of a wide-awake nightmare. --Jeff Shannon
This is one of the most amazing thrillers I've ever seen. I love a good thriller and this is by far one of the best. It is well acted, and gets you within the first 10 -15 minutes. Once it has you, it doesn't let up for the entire length thereafter. I love Kurt Russell and he's so good in this (He was also good in Unlawful Entry which was another fantastic thriller). The only trouble I have with this, is that it's always on TV right before I'm about to do a drive from LA to Vegas and it's all too close for comfort. J T Walsh was also great in this. He was pure evil but also really convincing. You have to see this movie. I know that is a cliche but this is true. This is such a great thriller, so all thriller fans watch this now if you haven't already seen it, but just make sure that you go for a pee first.
EDGE OF YOUR SEAT THRILLER- TENSE!!!
I recently watched this movie and really appreciated it. My grandmother had to turn it off once because it was to tense for her. But, everything about this movie is just like no relaxing what so ever, lol. You are always on your toes, and this is what makes this movie a classic thriller. Great acting by Russell and Walsh. Walsh is such a vicious villian, one of the top villian roles I have ever seen. This movie defines the term "edge of your seat thriller." I'm not going to say the plot, everyoody knows that by now when reading the other reviews, lol. Just see it, for all thriller fans.
Viewer gets involved!
This movie was just like one of my favorite Dean Koontz or Richard Laymon books.
Besides the non stop action and my level of interest not dropping even once, it was nice to see a movie that did not make my cry for two hours lost in my life, because many movies I have seen lately new or old did just that.
What makes this story so gripping is the fact that Kurt Russell's character is someone you begin to like really fast and you don't want anything happening to him. Also the action begins on a desert road, with no people around, so this reminds me of those " lost in the woods" story, where someone is escaping and there's not many places to hide, besides being all alone and in trouble.
When Russell's car breaks down and his wife hitches a ride with someone from around there to get help, and never comes back, he decides to take the matter into his own terms, and let me tell you, I yelled at the TV a few times, and I never do that, because he gets on a bumpy ride to discover the towns little dirty secret, and he doesn't stop.
Excellent move for any time of the day can't wait to watch it again soon.
Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) directed this creepy thriller about an outwardly friendly cop (Ray Liotta) who attaches himself to a married couple (Kurt Russell, Madeleine Stowe) whom he helps during a crisis. In short order, he's revealed to be a psychopath who wants Russell's wife, but the film is about more than Liotta's mental state. A bold script and Kaplan's astute direction peel away the layers of masculine identity in the male leads and underscore the painful conflicts good men feel when faced with classic territorial challenges. This is not as profound as Straw Dogs, but it is honest and provocative, until mayhem overcomes the final act. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Kurt Russell - Ray Liotta - Madeleine Stowe Director(s): Jonathan Kaplan DVD Release Date: Released the 22 May 2001 This item is currently not available.
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This is the TV movie that put Steven Spielberg on the map, shortly before he made The Sugarland Express. Working from a script by Richard Matheson, the film stars Dennis Weaver as a mild-mannered traveling salesman who unintentionally angers the driver of a semi truck. Suddenly, the truck is not only riding his tail but trying to run him off the road. No matter what he does (pulling over, stopping at a diner, calling the cops), he can't get rid of it. Spielberg makes the wise decision of never showing the driver, even as he cranks the voltage on the film's suspense elements. As a result, the truck itself takes on an air of satanic menace--even a personality of sorts--as it seems to hunt its human prey. Spielberg made a lot out of a little, suggesting just how skilled a storyteller... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dennis Weaver Director(s): Steven Spielberg DVD Release Date: Released the 17 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Steven Seagal gets killed during the first 20 minutes of this enjoyable thriller, so the movie scores points for ingenuity because it immediately improves when you realize that Seagal's role is just a heroic cameo. That leaves Kurt Russell to star as an American intelligence expert who (due to Seagal's untimely demise) finds himself leading a strike force against Islamic terrorists who have seized in-flight control of a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers. It's not all that different from Air Force One, but the formula story perks right along with considerable suspense as Russell's cohorts (Oliver Platt, Joe Morton) try to defuse a chemical bomb that could wipe out (you guessed it) the entire Eastern seaboard. John Leguizamo plays one of the U.S. commandos attempting to stop the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Kurt Russell - Halle Berry Director(s): Stuart Baird DVD Release Date: Released the 27 August 1997 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This film has the feel of a script that's been resurrected by a writer given the chance to direct his own movie. So it was with writer Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) and this film, his directing debut. The plotting is creaky and predictable in this story of an FBI agent (Quaid) relentlessly pursuing a serial killer (Glover) who, in an effort to intimidate the lawman, kidnaps the agent's child. The action set-pieces show up like clockwork, as this rogue cop battles his own agency in an effort to find his child. Quaid is grim and lifeless, so the film's only sparks are given off by Glover, in a wonderfully shaded performance that keeps you guessing whether he is, in fact, the bad guy after all. --Marshall FineMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Danny Glover - Dennis Quaid Director(s): Jeb Stuart DVD Release Date: Released the 13 May 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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A potboiler featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care of much more than her employer's well-being.
Annabella Sciorra plays the perfect mother of a flawless family. Her obstetrician, however, is less than wonderful, having enjoyed her examination much more than he should have. When she files sexual harassment charges against the repugnant doctor, he loses face--literally--after shooting himself in the head. Several months later, an ideal nanny shows up at her home. You guessed it--she's the doc's... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Annabella Sciorra - Rebecca De Mornay Director(s): Curtis Hanson DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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