Breaking

This movie is not Dog Day Afternoon but it is an honourable follower in its footsteps.

Abi Damaris Corbin gently hints at how common factors such as bureaucratic inefficiency, institutional racism and the US’s culture of violence all share responsibility for what unfolds.

The performances by Beharie, Williams, and especially Boyega ultimately save the film.

In an intense thriller, John Boyega shifts from reflection to rage.

Boyega more than holds his own here, seeming older than he is, more worn-down. The film supplies him the necessary details, but Boyega takes them and runs with the role.

The film is a tense, slow-burn thriller and with a heavy, somber tone appropriate for a social justice drama, but there are times when its pace sags and it can’t sustain the tension.

It’s soft moments and great performances like these that are simply exceptional and elevated this derivative script to a great film.

The always strong Connie Britton and Jeffrey Donovan round out a cast that is talented enough to make a bank robbery film that has been stripped down to its bare necessities as exciting as one with guns blazing.

Breaking showcases the powerhouse performances from John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, & of course the late but FANTASTIC Michael Kenneth Williams

Breaking is an angry condemnation of Veterans Affairs, a twenty-first-century companion to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”