Breakout (2013) Reviews

• Run... from this Awful Thriller

  claudio_carvalho2013-09-17

  The environmentalist Jack Damson (Brendan Fraser) accidentally kills a man during a protest in the woods and is imprisoned. Years later, his former wife and lawyer Maria (Amy Price-Francis) now is living with their daughter Jenny (Holly Deveaux) and their son Mikey (Christian Martyn) with Jack's friend Chuck (Daniel Kash). Chuck invites Jenny and Mikey to go camping in the woods. Meanwhile the psychopath Tommy Baxter (Dominic Purcell) travels with his retarded brother Kenny (Ethan Suplee) to a cabin in the same forest and Tommy kills the owner. However Jenny and Mikey witness the murder and Tommy hunts them. Jenny loses her cellular and Kenny calls Maria believing that she is his mother. Maria tells Jack what is happening and he breaks out of prison to rescue the siblings from the criminals. Will Jack succeed in his intent? "Breakout" is an awful thriller with a lame and stupid story full of clichés and terrible screenplay. There are many so many holes and stupid situations that it is difficult to list all of them. For example: (a) Jenny and Mikey sleep in the woods like angels while the psychopath is chasing them. (b) Everybody is stranded in the same point of the woods. (c) Jack easily finds Chuck and instead of the wounded guy drives his car out of the forest to call the police, he walks with Jack without a gun and slowing down his friend. (d) Jack easily finds his kids since he knows the forest, but he never brings them back to Maria's car. (e) Tommy misses all his shots except the one that kills the ranger. (f) Jack stabs Tommy on his hand but he never throws away the rifle in the river or brings the weapon with him. (g) Maria has successive contacts with Kenny, but she never goes to the police to report exactly what is happening in the woods. (h) The environmental problem is just a pretext to put Jack in prison and is totally forgotten. My vote is two. Title (Brazil): "A Caça" ("The Hunting")

• Stupid

  jwhiteboca2013-09-21

  Stupid goofs and situations, there are too many to list. This is a good example of an extreme waste of production funds. Since the director wrote it he clearly was blind to the numerous mistakes and nonsense situations. The bad guy is the worst shot on the planet. And the good guy kept shooting at a distant target with a sawed off shotgun. The topper was when the good guy fights with the bad guy and does not take his rifle from him and then runs away to continue the chase. I think the actors are not to blame as much as the director and writer. I think if the people responsible for this movie every want to work again they are going to have to change their names.

• an insult to my intelligence

  WatchedAllMovies2013-11-14

  After watching half the movie, I decided not to allow the movie to insult me any further and stopped watching. What's wrong with this movie: (1) normal people who sees a gunman killing people would call the police. In this movie, nobody does. (2) if you knock down an opponent with a weapon, take the weapon from the opponent and make sure he doesn't gets up. In this movie, when the good guy knocks down the opponent, he runs without doing any of the above. (3) if you have a rifle with a scope, you hide, take good aim and snipe at your opponent. In this movie, the guy with the rifle stands in the open, shoots without aiming and misses. (4) if someone with a scoped rifle is hunting you, you try to stay hidden. In this movie, the good guys hop into a canoe, paddle in the river with clear view from surrounding areas and make themselves easy targets. A bad movie is one thing, a movie made to insult my intelligence deserves a low rating.

• Wow. Where do I begin. Not good.

  scottmichael-593-9682572013-10-06

  Plot - weak, poorly planned, full of holes and questions, and well, kinda dumb. Acting - Not one of Dominic Purcell's best moments. Best actor of the film was the young daughter. Brendan Frasier is just a poor actor to begin with so casting him in an action/thriller is a recipe for a lot of good jokes and unbelievable acting. Its really bad actually. His panic'd yelling is really humorous. Like scared little girl meets Encino man. Setting was the only plus to this movie. Some great scenery if you like nature. That's about all.

• Is this a joke?

  oliverjamescarr2013-09-28

  I watched about 40 minutes before I realised how junk the play off of this film was going to be... After the basic character build (which was decent) the film just descended to a big clichéd mess. *Semi Spoiler* "Watch out for the river current" because any simple knowledge of water seems to go a miss with the kids and surely enough as I skip through the film, hey look! Kids fallen into the river rapids! /Spoiler This film is an absolute joke, after watching many 'manufactured' films (Production companies pumping budgets into making any old crap in the hopes of making a profit in the opening weekend before everyone relays how bad it is...) this is the one that has finally got me to sign up for an IMDb account to write reviews to throw down the bad and praise the good. The film industry has become very competitive and Breakout(2013) just isn't up to par at all...