Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Martin Freeman
Professionally, things could not be better for Will (Law), but personally he spends less and less time at home with his chronically depressed partner (Wright Penn) and their troubled 13 year-old daugh...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 8, 2007
Stats: 2,048 reviews
A typical British TV drama with an ultimately pointless story, but pleasant enough to watch. The London settings and brief bits of parkour add interest.
"You steal someone's heart, that's really a crime."
It's quite a treat (particularly these days) to watch a film and not be able to guess how it will end; where the decisions the characters reach come after they have considered their options, weighed the alternatives, and...( read more)
The most dramatic thing is the movie title. Poor storyline. Weird people. Bad accents. An hour in and still nothing has happened. Waste of time. Avoid!
Entertaining and different, a love triangle with unusual circumstances. An easy laid back watch.
There are a lot of sub story lines in this movie - Liv's daughter, the hooker at King's Crossing, immigrant crime, what is urban environmental architecture, depression, cheating, etc. -- the story goes around in circles a bit. I don't understand Jude Law's character (Will).
None of the ideas in this film feel like they're given enough consideration. It's a script full of interesting material and characters, but ultimately it's too languid and the occasional emphasis is on the wrong things. Nevertheless, there are a lot of very well-executed scenes a...( read more)
Inutile.
Però c'era Ed Westwick stranamente agile, da segnare sul calendario.
Anthony Minghella's attempt at a "hyperlink" film is a hit-and-miss affair connecting a cross-section of characters from both sides of the economic and cultural divide in modern day London via a series of astonishing and perplexing robberies; the results are intermittently absorb...( read more)
For all its Bergmanesque agonizing, the film never digs too far under the surface. It fails to break and enter. full review
Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering shimmers with good intentions and competency: Its blue/gray palette is elegant and unobtrusive; its cast is uniformly fine with occasional startling moments o... full review
What are the meaningful connections between these people's lives? Are they real and significant, or are they just plot contrivances, the manipulation of pawns in an onscreen board game? full review
The first third of the movie is intelligent and sets up an intriguing premise. Then the plot takes unconvincing and unlikely turns that result in an ending that feels false and forced. full review
Seeing the film is like attending a refined cocktail party where social problems are clucked over and personal tensions are politely disregarded. When it's over, you wish you'd gone to a bar where peo... full review
Breaking and Entering is so bloodless that even Minghella's best ideas come off as wan and pale. We're aware of the angst and confusion these characters suffer, and yet the movie shows us nothing so m... full review
Breaking and Entering climaxes in a welter of apologies. Everyone in London, it seems, has cause for remorse and for my part I regret that I lost count of the number of times the words 'I'm sorry' wer...
... despite Minghella's admirable attempt to tackle major themes on an intimate scale, the film goes down like weak tea. full review
Many talented directors have a Breaking and Entering in them, and some -- like Anthony Minghella -- have the misfortune of being successful enough to have it green-lit. full review
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