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Breaking
Directed by
Abi Damaris Corbin
PG-13
2022
1h 43m
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6.3
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A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate into civilian life.
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Cast of Breaking
John Boyega
Brian Brown-Easley
Michael Kenneth Williams
Eli Bernard
Nicole Beharie
Estel Valerie
Connie Britton
Lisa Larson
Selenis Leyva
Rosa Diaz
Jeffrey Donovan
Major Riddick
Olivia Washington
Cassandra Brown-Easley
London Covington
Kiah Easley
Robb Derringer
Chief Jack Quail
Carmine Giovinazzo
Ken Pierce
Kate Burton
Tami Stackhouse
Albert Kong
Steve Yen
Elise Neal
Juanita
Kelli Dawn Hancock
Briefing Officer
Mel Fair
Mark Cavanaugh
Keith Ewell
Keith James
Miriam Silverman
Hana
Shannon Walsh
911 Julie
Kim D'Armond
911 Wendy
Brian Groh
Lazy-Eyed Manager
Dan Aho
FBI Agent 1
Xavier Avila
Student
John Zderko
Vet
Kacey Montoya
News Anchor
Aries Sanders
Bomb Squad Command
William Marquart
FBI Agent 2
Lily Keene
Diana Stuart
Bourke Floyd
Bomb Tech
Marcus Bailey
Thomas
Michelle Bernard
Barricade Cop
Malcolm Smith
Trevor Easley
Joyce Greenleaf
Ida Jones
Angelina Ramirez
Station Attendant
Anthony D. Washington
Mobile Dispatcher
Frantz Durand
Police Supervisor (uncredited)
Robert Gatewood
Veteran (uncredited)
Harvey B. Jackson
Veteran (uncredited)
Anne-Marie Olsen
News Editor (uncredited)
Paul Sinacore
Paul (uncredited)
Peter Lawrence Singer
SWAT Officer (uncredited)
Katherine Stephens-Miller
Bridget Maxwell (uncredited)
John Un
Eric (uncredited)
Abi Damaris Corbin
Director / Writer
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Writer
Salman Al-Rashid
Producer
Sam Frohman
Producer
Joshuah Bearman
Producer
Mackenzie Fargo
Producer
Ashley Levinson
Producer
Kevin Turen
Producer
Breaking Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
The performances by Beharie, Williams, and especially Boyega ultimately save the film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
In an intense thriller, John Boyega shifts from reflection to rage.
Rolling Stone
K. Austin Collins
Boyega more than holds his own here, seeming older than he is, more worn-down. The film supplies him the necessary details, but Boyega takes them and runs with the role.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
The film is a tense, slow-burn thriller and with a heavy, somber tone appropriate for a social justice drama, but there are times when its pace sags and it can't sustain the tension.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
It's a different tone from John Boyega than we have seen before. He gets to show a really wide range of emotions here.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
[Boyega is] immensely watchable in the fact-based story of Brian Brown-Easley, a Marine veteran in dire straits who held up a Georgia bank in 2017, even when the material here doesn't always rise to meet him.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
An incredible, humanizing lead performance from John Boyega.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Breaking isn't pulse-racing in its execution, and it unfolds more like a stage play than a riveting heist thriller. Its drama comes not from where it's headed but the exasperation of Boyega's performance...
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
It's solid, from top to bottom.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
It depicts in stomach-churning detail how the contemporary militarization of law enforcement creates an atmosphere in which violence is near inevitable. This conscientious attention balances out the movie's occasional lapses into sentimentality.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Strong turns from Boyega and Williams anchor a tense, rueful drama.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Boyega is electrifying, burrowing into the complexity of a shattered man who's been ground up by an inhumane bureaucratic system.
AV Club
Tomris Laffly
Breaking's narrative propulsion still lags, even with a full-formed Dog Day Afternoon-adjacent ecosystem to explore.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
By the time Breaking creeps to its bloody climax, the movie has only made a thin sketch of its protagonist despite Boyega's obvious dedication. Everything driving Corbin's film is to be lauded, yet Breaking feels oddly lacking in drive.
Arizona Republic
Alexis Potter
From the trailer, I expected to like it a lot more than I did, but it doesn't do Brown-Easley's story the justice it deserves.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Ordoña
The lack of context and focus make "Breaking" feel unmoored. It also doesn't need to be some sort of thrill ride - but a deeper, grittier dive into its protagonist might have helped the film connect.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The film's unrelenting high pitch, paradoxically, does not intensify or sharpen the sense of drama but seems to have the opposite effect.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Despite... challenges and drawbacks, "Breaking" holds our attention throughout, thanks to strong performances in the key roles.
Shadow and Act
Jamil David
Williams, in his last on-screen role, shines with material that isn't fully fleshed out, showing his ability to pull emotion out of anything and imbue his character with the empathy and understanding only he could...
Fox 10 Phoenix
Caroline Siede
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 ... But that's not enough to offset the frustrating clichés.
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