Brake 2012

James Rocchi, MSN Movies: Your mileage enjoying Brake may vary, but even if you spot the final destination coming, it's a pleasant enough joyride. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: "Brake" is a full-scale paranoid nightmare with back-to-back double-whammy endings. Read more

Sam Adams, Time Out: [Dorff] spends most of the movie confusing tough-guy stoicism with simple inertness, despite the occasional Jack Bauer-style yell. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: 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. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The situation itself is simply too absurd for us to accept, right from the start. And the more it goes on, the harder it is to stay onboard. Read more

Andrew Lapin, NPR: 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. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Talk about being boxed in: This thriller is half-"24," half-"Buried" and, despite a few twists, unable to move anywhere. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: The whole claustrophobic one-man show feels like we've been here before, and with better material. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: It is amazing how much hair-raising action and fluid movement this film captures in the confined interior of a car trunk, or how many mood shifts Mr. Dorff conveys in a performance that can only be called multi-dimensional. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: 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. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Dorff's mannered Bruce Willis affect seems as insincere as the script, which helplessly loses credibility as info accrues and the narrative unpeels. Read more