Breakdown Lane

Rating: Null/10 (10 February 2002)

Spoilers herein.
Seeing this film in 2002 is a lesson in the moving baseline for thriller films. When this was new, it thrilled. Now it is tame.
It is a matter of escalating notions of pacing and threat. A busload of people is small potatoes in a post 9-11 world. Hopper himself has increased the drama of his villains. But the biggest change is our expectations of how the camera moves. I think de Palma's `Mission Impossible,' was the biggest raising of the bar in this regard.
Terrorist bombmakers always use the same color coding in their wires?