To put it bluntly, Breakdown is a Hitchcockian Lost in America. A yuppie couple go out on a road trip through the never-ending highways of California to start a new life, but get their shit totally fucked when their 1997™ Jeep™ Grand™ Cherokee™ craps out and the yuppie wife is kidnapped and held for ransom by a trucker and his merry band of redneck freaks. Lots of fun to be had here with Kurt Russell becoming more and more manic as his desperation reaches a feverish high under the Californian sun, leading to many madcap car chase sequences and a rip-roaring finale between two cinematic titans. Maybe not something I'll entirely remember a week from now, but it's a pretty damn good time while it's on.
To put it bluntly, Breakdown is a Hitchcockian Lost in America. A yuppie couple go out on a road trip through the never-ending highways of California to start a new life, but get their shit totally fucked when their 1997™ Jeep™ Grand™ Cherokee™ craps out and the yuppie wife is kidnapped and held for ransom by a trucker and his merry band of redneck freaks. Lots of fun to be had here with Kurt Russell becoming more and more manic as his desperation reaches a feverish high under the Californian sun, leading to many madcap car chase sequences and a rip-roaring finale between two cinematic titans. Maybe not something I'll entirely remember a week from now, but it's a pretty damn good time while it's on.
