Breakout (2013)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

One of my all time favorites.

hyped garbage

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe" director Damien Lee's adventurous epic "Breakout," starring Brendan Fraser, Dominic Purcell, and Ethan Suplee, amounts to a contrived outdoors thriller about a prison inmate who escapes from jail to track down the murderer responsible for terrorizing his family in the woods. Everything gets off to a bad start when our tree-hugging, conservationist hero, Jack Damson (Brendan Fraser of "The Mummy"), promises his young daughter, Jen (Holly Deveaux of "Mutant World"), that he will protect the welfare of trees. Seven years later, Jack leads an expedition of activists by canoes into the wilderness to prevent a powerful corporation from logging in the forest. These dissenters strap themselves to trees to thwart the company from cutting down the trees. Jack tangles with a big, beefy brute who had assaulted other protesters. During their rough and tumble fracas, Jack knocks the corporate goon down and he smacks his head against a log and dies. Jack goes to prison. Some years later, the same corporation cuts a deal with Jack to take three years off his sentence, if he will serve as a consultant to the corporation. While all this convoluted nonsense is occurring to Jack and his family, two brother are trying to leave the country. Tommy Baxter (Dominic Purcell of "Prison Break") is driving his mentally defective brother Kenny (Ethan Suplee of "American History X") to Canada. Tommy believes that he has rented Kenny and he a cottage. As it turns out, Tommy's check has bounced, and the owner refuses to rent him the place. Tommy kills the owner with a high-powered rifle equipped with a telescopic sniper scope. Jen and Jack's son Mikey (Christian Martyn) are canoeing in the river when Tommy shoots the home owner. The man who took Jen and Mikey out to a weekend in the woods, Chuck (Daniel Kash of "Aliens"), was one of the protesters who worked alongside Jack. Chuck gets the children to flee into the woods before Tommy can kill them. Tommy beats up Chuck and threatens to kill him unless he calls for Jen and Mikey to come to him. He refuses. Meantime, when Jen escapes with her little brother, she drops her cell phone. Truly, it is amazing the kind of reception that this cellphone gets despite the plethora of trees and the general isolation of the wilderness. Jack's wife Maria (Amy Price-Francis), an attorney who has cooperated with the corporate suits to get Jack out of prison, strikes up a conversation with dim-witted Kenny and Kenny believes that Maria is his mother. This relationship evolves through the story. At one point, Chuck attacks Kenny, but he doesn't know about Kenny's mental challenges. The two struggled in unarmed, close-quarters combat, and Kenny kills Chuck.Maria has agreed to help Jack during her latest prison visit to leave a car in the woods. Ironically, it seems that Jack is out in the open on a prison detail to clear up overgrown areas in the forest. Jack stashes his chainsaw so that it appears that he is operating it and takes off into the woods. Eventually, after driving an unknown number of miles, he finds his kids. Tommy is still in hot pursuit and Jack appropriates a sawed-off automatic shotgun. Of course, such a weapon at long range is not practical. Nevertheless, Tommy refuses to give up his pursuit of the family that he has vowed to kill. Our heroes almost catch a ride with a Park Ranger (Meegwun Fairbrother of "Beeba Boys"), but as the ranger is cranking up his truck, Tommy blows his head off! Mikey steps into a bear trap that the dead Park Ranger warned them about. Miraculously, Kenny shows up and shields the kids from Tommy. Tommy shoots Kenny. However, he is unable to extract Mikey from the trap until a dying Kenny intervenes. "Breakout" is a genuinely forgettable film with lots of energy but no intelligence. Dominic Purcell plays a thick-skulled idiot out to protect his brother. Damien Lee has pared down the action to a little under 90 minutes. During the last visuals, we learn that Jack has been pardoned for his legal conviction.

Breakout was a great movie! It had a interesting story line to it where Jack (Brendan Fraser) breaks out of prison to save his two kids Jen (Holly Deveaux) and Mikey (Christian Martyn) from being killed by a huntsman Tommy Baxter (Dominic Purcell) and his mentally challenged brother Kenny Baxter (Ethan Suplee).I had rented this because the DVD cover box looked interesting and the trailer was neat. The acting was really professional especially from Brendan Fraser and Ethan Suplee. The story really kept you on the edge of your seat the entire time.Unfortunately, the film is only on DVD and not Blu-ray but that is OK. I'm glad I saw it. It doesn't deserve the poor rating here on IMDb.I give 'Breakout' a 6/10.

Review: I really got what I expected with this movie. It's just full of running in the woods and some gruesome murder scenes which made it slightly interesting. The storyline was extremely sketchy! I really didn't understand how Brendan Fraser was able to find his kids in the woods so easy, when the baddies couldn't find them anywhere. Anyway, you do end up sticking with the movie to see how the whole running in the woods thing pans out, but the acting was pretty terrible and the storyline really needed some thought. I'm not surprised that it went straight to DVD. Disappointing!Round-Up: Brendan Fraser has just gone from bad to really bad in my estimation with this movie. He must have just wanted the money. The film looks and feels like it's made for TV and any idiot could have played Brendan's role. To be honest, it didn't really suit him, but Dominic Purcell was a great choice, along with his mentally disturbed brother. Any other person in the world would have called the police when they found out that there kids had been kidnapped, which was what made the whole storyline unbelievable. I recommend this movie to people who are into there drama/thrillers about a father and his kids trying to escape killers in the woods. 2/10

Just finished watching this movie. The few written reviews this movie has received so far are a little on the harsh side. Although this was not a great movie it certainly was not a bad movie either. It was stuck someone in the middle. I really loved how this movie is set in Ontario, Canada. I am from Ontario myself and so it is refreshing to see movies from home so to speak. The idea behind this movie is solid enough the acting was a bit weak even for a big star like Brandon. I would say the best acting was from Dominic Purcell who is best known for his role in Prison Break.I rated this movie an 5 out of a possible 10. I was not bad but it also was not that good good either.