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While there are plenty ofmovies on Amazon Prime Videothat have justifiably pull in their repute as some of the best ever made , there ’s also plenty of other clobber on the streaming service that can be a little fleck more hard to key out as deserving look on . If you ’ve already made your elbow room through all of the political program ’s most obvious titles , though , you might be take care for something a little more under the radar on Prime Video that ’s deserving your metre .
Breakdown , which assure the story of a man who has to save his married woman after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert , is one such film , and it ’s leavingPrime Videoat the end of February . Before it go forth the platform , though , you ’ve still got sentence to contain it out . Here are three reasons why you definitely should .
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Breakdown features a hugely compelling Kurt Russell performance
By 1997 , whenBreakdownwas unloosen , Kurt Russell was past the prime of his stardom . Even so , this pic proves definitively that Russell still had wad in the tank .
Although it does n’t make a ton of sense that this regular guy dead proves to be resourceful enough to take down the vicious kidnappers who have nabbed his wife , it ’s nonetheless immensely satisfying to watch Russell ’s devolution from a even guy to someone who seems to be up to of almost anything . Few actors are better at pure activity than Russell , andBreakdownis up there with his honorable work .
It knows exactly how long it needs to be
Breakdownis one of the most underseen action movie of recent decades , but that does n’t mean the movie is at all bemused about what sort of picture show it is . This is a schlocky action motion picture that is lift by acuate filmmaking and a bang-up central public presentation , and it ’s , therefore , just a touch over 90 minutes long .
Because the moving picture is so tight , everything that made the last cut feels propulsive , and by the time the movie ’s over , you ’ll receive the thrill that comes with its adrenaline - pump close .
It picked a great central setting
By setting itself in the expanse of the American West , Breakdownbecomes something of a westerly , follow Russell ’s character through a miscellany of desert locales .
More significantly , though , the plastic film proves to be a great fomite for seeing both how beautiful the American West is and how terrifying it might be to discover that your car had break down in the middle of nowhere . The desert is beautiful , andBreakdownknows how to shoot it , but that does n’t mean it is n’t also terrific , andBreakdownconveys that part , too .
Breakdownis stream onAmazon Prime Videountil February 29 .
