Everyone Has a Breaking Point
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods, Dominic Purcell, Rhys Coiro |
| Director |
Rod Lurie |
| Screenplay | Rod Lurie, based on the screenplay by David Zelag Goodman, Sam Peckinpah, based on the novel by Gordon Williams |
| Music | Larry Groupé |
| Cinematography | Alik Sakharov |
| Editing | Sarah Boyd |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2011 |
| Produced by | Screen Gems, Battleplan Productions |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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| Genre | Thriller |
| Language | Frequent, strong |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None (?) |
| Violence | Strong, intense, realistic |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | Alcohol |
| Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer  Straw dogs lacks original's bite | 5 |  |
| Die Burger François Bloemhof Dié honde se byt is maar bra flou ná '71 se hoofbrekens | 5 | |
| Cape Times Todd McCarthy Recycling of violent Peckinpah classic | 5 | |
| Box Office Nick Schager If Peckinpah's original was a rotten plank spiked with rusty nails, Rod Lurie's redo is something closer to a nicely carved Louisville Slugger, both of them violent blunt objects but one far more gnarly and nasty than the other — a matter of degree that does much to lessen the impact of this modern adaptation of Gordon Williams' novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. | 5 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Rod Lurie has made a first-rate film of psychological warfare, and yes, I thought it was better than Peckinpah's. | 15 |  |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Lurie wants us to see the moral wounds that come from losing control, a solid reason for a remake. Both takes on Straw Dogs hold up a dark mirror to humanity. Choose your own bad medicine. | 15 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs For yours truly, I found it a combination of both, a taut psychological thriller that works on both the cerebral and reptilian parts of our brains, including resulting in me actually sweating during the climactic siege, a visceral reaction this hardened reviewer rarely experiences. That's a testament to Lurie's work, and while it might not be a perfect film and certainly not an original one, and certainly isn't for all audiences, it clearly works for what it's aiming to do and be. | 13 |  |
| Metacritic.com 29 critics | 9 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 108 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer This remakes streamlines the plot but ultimately makes a fatal mistake: It celebrates violence. | 8 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 10 | |
| Movie Review Intelligence 35 critics | 11 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 2096 Netizens What are you capable of? | 11 | |
Average .. 47% | 9 | |