British director Jonnie Malachi’s gangster pastiche Breakdown can be a vicious mongrel of a typical movie, frothing and snarling though using a fatal insufficient bite inside bark. Owing much to previously more productive degrees of that ilk, however you like but certainly not in substance, Breakdown thrashes desperately in attempts at allegory but ultimately ends up floundering in the already saturated genre.
The twin thuds of silencer rounds ricocheting into the opening frame offer about normally duality ever since the film can manage. Assassin Alfie Jennings (Craig Fairbrass) hurriedly but efficiently portions himself into a car following his latest “transaction”. However, this hit man which has a heart is haunted by visions of past contractual obligations as well as the burden of his burgeoning morality is maintaining growth too much up-to-date.
Soon after retrieving himself over the latest epiphany, he's summoned within the Manor of his superior, Albert (James Cosmo), a previous Major having a penchant for moustaches and human taxidermy. Greeted from the door by Ronnie (Rab Affleck, another mustachioed tough guy), Alfie’s fortunes spiral downward with this level on, after an incident inside of a routine torturing to obtain a client.
The film continues, with scenes draped together within the toil in the script so rooted in aphorism and wince-inducing cliché it is hard to imagine operate has been made in the slightest. The cataclysmic tedium of Fairbrass’ monosyllabic mumbling, together with yummy mummy trophy wife Cat (Olivia Grant) similarly struggling for getting her words out by employing a perpetual pout and doe-eyed affectation, ends in Breakdown not only managing to confuse notions of masculinity with violence, but will also appearing to endorse them.
The direction itself, however, is definitely the movie’s one saving grace; it appears to be very slick and well lit, despite as being a patchwork of shots lifted from superior films and directors (offering Sam Mendes’ infamous dining room table shot from American Beauty and Road to Perdition). Emmett Scanlan’s turn as Connor is yet another much-needed tonic, oozing in and out of scenes such to be a malnourished, Usual Suspects-era Stephen Baldwin. Yet neither can rescue the film from sinking in the weight of their very own amateurish failings and Breakdown will probably end up sleeping when using fishes.
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Released : 15 January 2016
Player : Craig Fairbrass , Emmett J Scanlan , James Cosmo , Mem Ferda
Director: Jonny Malachi
Size : 225 MB
Duration : 1 hour 50 minutes
Imdb Rating : 6/10
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