A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.
Dorff and Torres make a lot out of very little, always keeping the audience aware of the larger world outside the small, dark space in which they've trapped us.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
22 Mar 2012
fresh:
Brake may not be the kind of film that Dorff's thesp character in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere is pining for, but the actor fully commits to the arduous demands of the part.
– Robert Koehler,
Variety,
22 Mar 2012
rotten:
Talk about being boxed in: This thriller is half-"24," half-"Buried" and, despite a few twists, unable to move anywhere.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
22 Mar 2012
fresh:
There are plenty of gripping moments, as well as a few silly ones - bees get involved at one point, presumably to please Wicker Man fans. And the ride as a whole is at the very least exciting to take part in.
– Andrew Lapin,
NPR,
22 Mar 2012
rotten:
The whole claustrophobic one-man show feels like we've been here before, and with better material.