Brake

Plot synopsis:
Jeremy Reins, a U.S. Secret Service special agent assigned to the presidential detail, is drugged, kidnapped and held captive within a glass box in the cramped, dark trunk of a car. At first Jeremy thinks it is a prank from people he owes money for gambling debts, but he quickly learns that the truth is far more sinister. Jeremy begins to endure mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract information. The information needed is the location of the secret bunkers, dubbed "Roulette", that are used by the president and vice president during a national emergency.
Jeremy's only contact is Henry, another hostage that is also locked in a trunk of a car; both hostages have timers in the trunk with them that counts down. The terrorists have left old radios in the trunk to allow them to communicate with their hostages as well as allowing Jeremy and Henry to talk to one another. Through long conversations, Jeremy learns that the cars are actually bombs, and that they are currently in Maryland traveling towards Washington D.C. The car is almost pulled over by police and a high speed chase ensues but Jeremy is unable to be rescued, although the box is shot, leaving a hole in the glass. Jeremy is tortured every time the counter hits zero, at one point bees are released into his tank, since he is allergic to bee stings. However, the terrorists give him an Epi-pen injection, saving his life: they need him alive. The terrorists also kidnap his estranged wife, Molly, and hold her in another trunk. After enduring much emotional and mental stress, Jeremy still refuses to give up the location. After his countdown reaches zero, Jeremy's glass box begins to flood with liquid. After nearly drowning, Jeremy is pulled out by someone, revealed to be Henry.
It is revealed that the whole situation was an exercise to test whether Jeremy would break or not. Everyone he saw or was in contact with is present, along with their radios, which they used to play their parts. Jeremy collapses from his wounds and is put in an ambulance with Molly. On the way to the hospital, he sees the Washington monument through the window and chuckles. Noticing this, Molly looks out the window and asks if the monument was the location, but Jeremy dismisses it as unimportant and gives her an engagement ring, asking her to marry him. When she replies that they are already married, Jeremy smiles and asks her to marry him again. As they kiss, Molly handcuffs him to the gurney and pulls a wire from her shirt. Revealing themselves to really be with the terrorists, Molly and Henry are told over the radio that they have the location now that they lured him into a false sense of security and Jeremy is to be killed. As Molly holds a gas-filled mask over Jeremy's face, the film cuts to black.

Tags: claustrophobic

Review:
No. Up to the very end the movie was very interesting and it has been thus far - by my standards one of the best movies that you see 1:20mins only one actor acting.Acting was good to great.
Overall, I thought the concept of Brake was pretty clever: Secret Service agent gets kidnapped; locked in the trunk of a constantly moving automobile by a group of mysterious terrorists; physically and mentally tortured by unconventional methods in order for them to get what they want.
Listen, with a plot of this nature there are only a few ways this could have ended - either the terrorist will get what they want out of agent Jeremy Reines (Dorff) or they won't.
The performances are solid throughout, Stephen Dorff gives a gritty, organic performance and this vehicle finally allows him to flex those acting muscles in a way we haven't seen in some time.
The movie is fantastically shot, kudos to the director and cinematography as well as the fx team that put together some great material for the filming, I would really like to catch some behind the scenes footage of the shooting of this movie.
All in all this movie is one to watch as it pulls together the last things you would expect throughout and is great entertainment..
This is just another "b" movie lots of potential to be an excellent thriller but its not engaging enough and pretty easy to figure out.Acting is good enough as its only one person mostly in the whole film.Tense not really .No real action or interaction at all.
You are immediately drawn into the character Jeremy played by (Stephen Dorff) simply awesome to capture the audience so early on in the film.
The camera work is top notch all the way through the movie all the angles are shot just amazing with this you are left on the edge of your seat needing to know what happens next.
When I read a synopsis of this movie, it looked like a straight to video knockoff of the overrated 2010 film "Buried" starring Ryan Reynolds.
Great action scenes, very clever plot twists and a big surprise ending that I did not see coming.
We've seen him take mainstream and art house roles in movies, but this is one of those films, that make good actors great.
After 20 minutes the whole trunk thing got really boring and pointless, and after 40 minutes I decided to jump ahead to almost the end of the movie and I can say I didn't miss anything.
A normal worthwhile terrorist movie would begin with the first and last ten minutes of this movie, and after that you would get an hour of expanding the plot and entertaining action sequences or whatever you desire.If I want to sum up this movie its like an action movie with all the interesting and entertaining parts removed.I'm very upset with myself that I wasted my time on this..
The main character reminds of Bruce Willis at times and he had Willis' Die Hard intensity even when he's not swinging down a skyscraper from a fire hose through a window but stuck in, well, like I said, the trunk of a car.
When I heard about the plot I wondered how a movie with one principal actor shot in the trunk of the car could hold my attention for 92 minutes.
Only reason I watched this, it kind of sound like Buried, This time, man wakes up in Box of Glass, in back of a Truck, being held hostage by the people on the radio.Thought the movie, it's just seem talking and helping other people who in the same situations.i Found most of the movie really well gripping , Could not wait until what happens next before one of worst twist ever.The twist just made the whole movie really pointless , after the movie got even more Predictable wit the Double twist.If movie ended ten minutes before it did, I would have giving it respectable 7 out of 10, how ever twist killed the movie , which makes 4 out of 10 The acting was okay but there went many like able people in this movie.
people are saying its a spin off to buried 2010 but in a way its the same kind of thing but this is what terrorists do to people, he's somewhere eles one night in new york then awakes in a glass box in back of a boot of a veichel.
what an exciting movie , i hope i didn't see last 2 minutes, everything was going amazing till the end , but it seems like you made a superb cake and then u put salt over it ....
This flick needs to be renamed "How to Make a Flick on $500.00 Bucks or Less." And the entire, sorry plot is totally unreal--there are way too many unanswered questions: "How did this guy get in the trunk of a car?" "Who exactly were the upper-echelon government figures upon which (what passes for) the plot was centered?" "How did the entire situation come about?" And "Why?" Next time I see a cast with one well-known actor among a bunch of unknowns, a red-flag will breeze through my mind and I will just pass..
Tom Berenger, who was well known for doing the Sniper movies, was in this film at the end-to little avail-it still sucked as a cinematic experience.There was a hundred ways they could have made it better..
Well, to be honest it is really hard to rate this movie, but in the end it was kind of exhausting.Of course when you are watching this movie there comes an immediate comparison to "Buried" to your mind.
But "Brake" cannot hold up to the other example.Although Stephen Dorff plays his role quite good you cannot get an empath feeling to his character and this would be mandatory for a movie nearly based on one protagonist.The worst thing is the ending where the story holes even got smashed in with a wrecking ball to ruin the complete sense that was made up until then.
The same thing in this movie.However, there is a big difference in the two films aside from the fact that one of them featured Halle Berry, a reason to watch a film in itself.In brake, ALL the action takes place in the trunk of a car, and there is no action outside that trunk.
That is not enough to carry a film like this.I just kept hoping the vehicle would crash so the movie might end..
It was mainly filmed the same way, all the focus on the main character Jeremy (Stephan Dorff), who is a Secret Service agent with a secret that some Terrorists want to know, and how he reacts to all the commotion going on around him.
Terror has many faces and he finds that its difficult to know who to trust when you work for the secret service.The premise is believable, the script well conceived and the acting fantastic.I really enjoyed the film and the roller-coaster ride of tension.Its a great thriller for 95 minutes, but then they decided to turn it into a farce.8 out of ten.
The psychological tension raised to an insane degree, and the whole movie feels like one giant "Saw" trap, but instead of just being mindless gore and torture, there is actually a strong story and solid pacing.
While the main character in Brake may not be as like-able or relatable as Paul Conroy in "Buried", the twists and turns make the story much more engaging.
So much so that if I were ever to watch the film again, I would probably pause it about five minutes before the credits roll to spare myself the disappointing flaw in an otherwise great suspense/thriller.
However, aside from the awful ending, Brake is still a very good film and definitely worth watching..
It looks like Dorff really worked very hard on this film and carried it of well, I have thought he was always talented.
I watched this movie despite reading reviews that the ending ruined the whole film.
After the Ryan Reynolds film Buried came out to such high praise, it seems like everyone is trying to put their twist on the idea.
At first this film seems like a direct rip off of Buried just in a trunk, but in reality there are a few more layers and twists here that make it more entertaining on some levels.
Stephen Dorff has always been an underrated great actor, but here gives one of his best performances while carrying the entire movie on his shoulders.
This one even manages to throw some action in it while never leaving the trunk which works really well and a surprise change to this type of story.Overall this ended up being way better and filled with more substance than you would have expected.
This movie has the same vibe as that Ryan Reynolds where he was seemingly buried the whole time, but this story moved along a lot better.
It's a shame that more people won't get to appreciate what a great job Stephen Dorff delivered in this movie, but maybe it'll have a nice run in the Online Streaming and DVD market.
A very tense and exciting movie that was a lot like "Buried".
"All right just calm down, breath...breath." When secret service agent Jeremy Reins (Dorff) wakes up in a trunk of a car he thinks he is just kidnapped.
Overall, a great movie but had one of the worst endings I have ever seen.
It reminded me of Castaways with one main character for the majority of the movie but Dorff did a good job in his performance to keep one interested and waiting for the next thing to happen.
Although it was good, more like amazing, it was also sad and horrific.CONS: The one thing that I could say was negative about this movie was the fact that there was a ridiculous amount of plot holes.
You'll understand when you watch the film, but a plot like this needs more motive and reasonable tactics.
Stephen Dorff is good for what he has to work with, and it has a few OK moments, but the twist ending seemed dumb and clunky,which just made the whole thing leave a bad taste in my mouth,cinematicly speaking.
Stephen Dorff plays secret service agent Jeremy Reins who suddenly awakes, confused in a back of a car, entombed in some sort of perspex case.He has no idea where he is or how he got there.
This is certainly an intriguing low budget B movie.The focus is mainly on Dorff, trapped in the trunk of a car, bathed in red light and he certainly holds your attention while many of the other actors are voices on the phone, radio or people in the car.It is an unusual, tense film that does not outlast its welcome..
A Secret Service Agent (Stephen Dorff) is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract information for their plot against the President of the United States.He is locked in a box that way too complicated.
Just keep an eye on your watch and turn it off 5 minutes before the movie is due to end..
The plot: A Secret Service agent is kidnapped, placed in a see-through coffin that's rigged with a few mysterious contraptions, and subjected to bizarre psychological torture.Stephen Dorff is an interesting actor.
cant say i ever been a stephen dorff fan i actually liked it goes to show you don't need a big budget and cgi to make a good film just a decent storyline was the one moment that reminded me of the end of homeland but was on the whole pretty good imagine jack Bauer locked in the boot of a car....
the character is a bit ruthless doesn't seem to mind sacrificing other peoples family but unwilling to sacrifice his own and yeah is a bit like buried but id say still pretty impressive did think it was annoying the amount of times the car was chased by the police and got away and through all the madness never got stuck in traffic once i haven't finished watching it yet its almost finish but i wonder it its all a test.
All of the things that happened  in it suddenly start to seem even more unlikely and just plain  ridicules when you do so and it makes you never want to watch this  movie again.
Some kind of zip-tie was obviously used to attach the cheesy, clichéd double twist at ending.I don't believe in, nor write plot summation in film reviews which in this case is fortuitous because the the entire plot is:A CIA guy wakes up in the boot of a car.
Yet another Great movie Killed by a Second ending.
I cannot recall the last time a movie has made me feel so swindled.Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) awakens, confused and disoriented.
And I guess any time you've got Tom Berenger doing a cameo it's the kiss of death.I predicted the "surprise" ending 15 minutes into the film and then as soon as it started to unfold, I saw the "double take" coming a mile away.Stephen Dorff's decent performance is the only redeeming quality of this film.
sorry but how you people vote with 8-9 stars this film?one men inside a box in a car speaking on the phone.how this is mystery or i don't know what.another movie only for the shelf of video club.i was trying to finish the film but it was to hard for me to spend all this time.
i write this in the hope you don't have to waste an hour and a half of your life watching a movie that will leave you sad and disappointedi watched it for free on television and i still feel like i should get my money back.this movie was OK for the most part, for a 1:20 min movie featuring one person trapped in a steamer trunk sized clear plastic box in the trunk of a car it was intense but frankly the ending was predictable if your paranoid and the bad guy's winmajor spoilers are estranged wife, friends and fellow agents are all in on the terrorist attack and they use wheels within wheels to confuse the secret service agent until he lets slip the presidents location at which point they kill him end of movieit's basically watching the last hour or so of a man's life, watching him resist everything used against him and them he casually let's slip the one vital piece of information he was ready to die to protect.
The longer the movie goes on the more convinced you become that as things are happening...well they just don't sit right, until by around half way you suspect the whole thing is a set up.So come the last few minutes you're not blown away by the reveals...you sit there thinking "Oh yeah, I knew that!"Even the "surprise" twist at the end is no surprise, the whole thing is simply far too transparent...& I'm no secret Service agent.Disappointing overall.
After 20 minutes of movie the story was way too unbelievable and on a "no return point", it has just two possible endings...
I know I've seen this movie it was called buried.
The only good thing I would say is that the movie had a little more action than buried and the acting was better..
Well, the first thing I want to say that the plot looks a lot like 'Buried' which I found way better.
The film will keep you at the edge of your seat till it's almost the end, I personally think this is one of the most ridiculous endings I have ever seen in a movie.
I do not want to spoil the ending of course but If you haven't seen 'Buried' go see that one and forget about this movie.
It's a great thriller, but the ending makes no sense at all.If you are going to watch this movie, please leave a comment what you thought about the overall and about the ending.
The plot follows a Secret Service Agent who is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract information for their plot against the President of the United States.OK so the synopsis makes it sound like a pretty standard "save the president" kind of film, but thankfully looks can be deceiving.
The entire film is set in a plastic box 'prison' in the boot of a car where agent Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) is held captive.
One thing puzzled me prior to watching 2012's Brake and another throughout: How could this story of a man trapped be any different than the other multiples of movies with men buried alive as of late (or female, if you count Kill Bill, Vol. 2) and what the frak does the title mean?No spoilers here, but the latter question is answered in the finale's twist you may/may not see coming.
The Ryan Reynolds movie BURIED was the film that popularised this genre, but others have followed.
I generally don't like them much but this is one of the better I've watched, and Stephen Dorff is certainly invested in his main role.
Except that here, the main guy, a secret agent, Jeremy (Stephen Dorff) is in the trunk of a car and must go through differents tortures because some terrorists want to know where is the bunker of the President of the United States of America.
Brake was a great, intense film that kept me interested the whole way through (coming from a guy with ADD).