Broken (2007)

Critic Reviews

• Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune

  [The] script is so uneven that the result is like watching four different, equally bad, movies.

• , Los Angeles Times

  Broken is a pretentiously time-fragmented, tedious slog.

• Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun-Times

  'Why?' you may wonder as the end credits roll on director Alan White's Broken.

• Kyle Smith, New York Post

  Tiresome and turgid, Broken has nothing to say and says it slowly. Even the sex scenes are a bore.

• Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

  Ideas aren't enough to overcome a badly organized structure and often stilted acting.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  If Broken defies basic credibility, it is at least well acted.

• Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine

  Formulaic soap opera has the makings of camp but the heart of an after-school special.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  ...a fairly tedious and thoroughly familiar portrait of drug abuse.

• Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

  Broken has little of any great substance to add to the old truism that L.A. eats its young (especially those who just got off the bus from Ohio) and then picks its teeth with their hopes and dreams.

• Brian Tallerico, The Deadbolt

  Despite good work by the two leads to put it back together again, Broken lives up to its title.

• Gary Goldstein, Reel.com

  Broken goes a bit heavy on the symbolism (naming the leads Hope and Will, for starters) and tries to stir up sympathy for characters who may not deserve it, but as cautionary tales go, it's worth a look.

• Scott Tobias, AV Club

  Heather Graham's would-be singer-songwriter in Broken is a walking cliché in a film overstuffed with them.

• Mark Dujsik, UR Chicago Magazine

  Says nothing new in a familiar way.

• Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  Alan White's follow-up to Risk is still pretty entertaining, if not in the way he intended.

• Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

  A stagy piece that allows the audience to wonder how much is going on in the central character's drug-induced hallucinations and how much is real--No matter, though, since nothing is particularly dramatic or original.

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