Within the first 10 minutes of 'Breaking' a man walks into a bank and hands the teller a note comprised of four words: 'I have a bomb.' From there the film becomes a tense, mostly real-time thriller with a masterful central performance from 'Star Wars' star John Boyega as a former Marine driven to the edge by a cruel, broken bureaucratic system.
as one of the hostages help bridge the gap between the film’s social relevance and its propulsive plotting. And it really can’t be overstated how much Boyega holds the film together in a role that strips him of his showman’s charisma and replaces it with a nervy, capricious, empathetic intelligence that’s counterbalanced by flashes of paranoia and frustration.
But that’s not enough to offset the frustrating clichés, from the emotionally manipulative phone calls Brian keeps making to his precociously angelic daughter to the one-note action movie archetypes who fill the newsrooms and police forces on the margins of this story.Still, there are moments where co-writer/director Abi Damaris Corbin deploys those action movie tropes for pointedly subversive aims.
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