
Abi Damaris Corbin’s quiet feature debut,
Breaking, is a movie that does everything Nick Cassavetes’s disaster
John Q failed to do when it managed to make $71 million domestically in 2002. Of all the things Denzel Washington has saved in his movies (subways, jets, submarines, locomotive trains), holding up a hospital and forcing a doctor to perform life-saving surgery on his son was, by far, his worst. Unfortunately, Washington’s always-solid performance couldn’t save an absurd script based on a ridiculous presence. The based-on-a-true-story
Breaking offers breakout performances by Corbin and the film’s lead, John Boyega (
Detroit, The Woman King), most notably recognized for his role as Finn in the latest
Star Wars movies.
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