Breakdown
Poor Yuppie Snake Plissken, he can’t tell JT Walsh is always the bad guy? Another extremely low cosmopolitrometer film, had to double check this was not by Peckinpah.
A loving couple of yuppies from the big city of Boston go all the way to big city of San Diego for unspecified reasons, in their fancy car, but apparently low on money. This is not Psycho, we will never know their story.
What matters is some hillbillies in flyover country are here to help. Located in Monument Valley is seems, or the town from Tremors, that unspecified zone of Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico. When their fancy Jeep breaks down, a trucker offers to take them to the nearest payphone, but only the woman takes him up. Our hero eventually connects some wires and fixes up the car.
But when he gets to the rendezvous, she is nowhere to be seen, nor the truck. He finds the truck, but the dude plays dumb, even when searched by a local cop.
After some action scenes, we discover a gang of 3 rednecks kidnapped her and wants money as ransom. He pretends to be rich, but withdraws a pittance, filled with single dollar bills, but it’s enough to gain access to a gun and a truck, after a brief struggle.
Alas, the cop shows up and misunderstood the situation, leaving our hero with the gun, but the cop and the kidnapper dead. He clumsily follows the kidnapper leader and reaches his house, where he will stash the loot. We then notice how many cameras this guy has: it’s a ring that kidnaps fancypants couples, robs them, and dumps their bodies somewhere. The wife and kid live on the big house and do not know this.
Our hero outright struggles with a crowbar, and decides murdering everyone is simpler. He almost does it, but instead saves the princess. This time.
There’s time for a final chase sequence, then a fight with a semi and a truck hanging from a bridge, until Good prevails.
The bad guy says at some point something similar to:
100 pounds, 4 of those pure tit
An incredible statement.
Wait, the director did Terminator 3 and Surrogates? What the hell!
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