Breakdown vs The Big Bang

Breakdown has the higher audience score (6.9/10 against 5.3/10 for The Big Bang). Breakdown is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 1h 41m. Breakdown is the older of the two (1997 against 2011). Both are action, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Breakdown posterBreakdown1997 VS The Big Bang posterThe Big Bang2011
BreakdownThe Big Bang
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 5.3/10
Year19972011
Length1h 33m1h 41m
GenresAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerAction, Mystery, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorJonathan MostowTony Krantz
Main castKurt Russell, Jack Noseworthy, Jack McGee, Rex Linn, M.C. GaineyJimmi Simpson, Sienna Guillory, Sam Elliott, Delroy Lindo, Thomas Kretschmann

Synopsis

Breakdown

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff…

The Big Bang

A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets of Los Angeles to the desolate desert of New Mexico, Cruz must contend with a brutal Russian Boxer, three brash LAPD detectives, an aged billionaire looking for the Big Bang, and the billionaire's stunningly gorgeous wife. The solution to the mystery will cost ten lives, net $30 million and just…

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