Broken Bridges 2006

Critics score:
5 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Broken Bridges takes too many shortcuts and hits too many obvious notes. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Broken Bridges feels scrapped-together, like something that might have premiered on the old Turner South network. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Broken Bridges is one of those movies where most scenes start with a character staring out over a pond, sitting on a porch, or looking at an old photograph, just waiting to reminisce with whoever sidles up next to them. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Country star Toby Keith makes his acting debut in this rickety heartland drama, which was produced by Country Music Television and panders shamelessly to the traditional-values crowd. Read more

Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: When you can get just as good on the Hallmark network, why drive all the way to a theater? Read more

Mario Tarradell, Dallas Morning News: At every turn, Broken Bridges is filled with cliched predictability. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A limp, timeworn tale of a drunken has-been country star (Keith) and a TV reporter he had and lost (Kelly Preston) who meet again after returning home because of a tragedy. Read more

Bobby Reed, Chicago Sun-Times: Any viewer who can't predict the outcome of this modest flick must not be familiar with a certain genre to which it is indebted: the made-for-TV movie. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: It's obviously intended as a star vehicle, but Broken Bridges turns out to be a rattletrap jalopy for country music performer Toby Keith. Read more