‘Breakdown’ Pushes Our Fear Buttons

While it never ranges far from formula, “Breakdown” manages to play off all our contemporary fears. What if, say, your car broke down on a lonely road and your spouse suddenly ended up missing? And then you discovered that he/she had been kidnapped and you were expected to pay money you didn’t have? That’s the situation that filmmaker Jonathan Mostow puts Kurt Russell in, and the result is an entertaining variation on a familiar theme. , DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: Photo