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The environmentalist Jack Damson (Brendan Fraser) accidentally kills a man during a protest in the woods and is imprisoned. Years later, his former wife and lawyer Maria (Amy Price-Francis) now is living with their daughter Jenny (Holly Deveaux) and their son Mikey (Christian Martyn) with Jack's friend Chuck (Daniel Kash). Chuck invites Jenny and Mikey to go camping in the woods.

Meanwhile the psychopath Tommy Baxter (Dominic Purcell) travels with his retarded brother Kenny (Ethan Suplee) to a cabin in the same forest and Tommy kills the owner. However Jenny and Mikey witness the murder and Tommy hunts them. Jenny loses her cellular and Kenny calls Maria believing that she is his mother. Maria tells Jack what is happening and he breaks out of prison to rescue the siblings from the criminals. Will Jack succeed in his intent?

"Breakout" is an awful thriller with a lame and stupid story full of clichés and terrible screenplay. There are many so many holes and stupid situations that it is difficult to list all of them. For example: (a) Jenny and Mikey sleep in the woods like angels while the psychopath is chasing them. (b) Everybody is stranded in the same point of the woods. (c) Jack easily finds Chuck and instead of the wounded guy drives his car out of the forest to call the police, he walks with Jack without a gun and slowing down his friend. (d) Jack easily finds his kids since he knows the forest, but he never brings them back to Maria's car. (e) Tommy misses all his shots except the one that kills the ranger. (f) Jack stabs Tommy on his hand but he never throws away the rifle in the river or brings the weapon with him. (g) Maria has successive contacts with Kenny, but she never goes to the police to report exactly what is happening in the woods. (h) The environmental problem is just a pretext to put Jack in prison and is totally forgotten. My vote is two.

Title (Brazil): "A Caça" ("The Hunting")

After watching half the movie, I decided not to allow the movie to insult me any further and stopped watching.

What's wrong with this movie: (1) normal people who sees a gunman killing people would call the police. In this movie, nobody does.

(2) if you knock down an opponent with a weapon, take the weapon from the opponent and make sure he doesn't gets up. In this movie, when the good guy knocks down the opponent, he runs without doing any of the above.

(3) if you have a rifle with a scope, you hide, take good aim and snipe at your opponent. In this movie, the guy with the rifle stands in the open, shoots without aiming and misses.

(4) if someone with a scoped rifle is hunting you, you try to stay hidden. In this movie, the good guys hop into a canoe, paddle in the river with clear view from surrounding areas and make themselves easy targets.

A bad movie is one thing, a movie made to insult my intelligence deserves a low rating.

Awful movie that seemed more like a propaganda film. Evnironmentalist - Good Guy. Guy from South and believes in God - Bad Guy. The writer can't develop proper characters so he just repeats awful stereotypes of people from the South. Plot holes galore. When you have a guy who is trying to kill you, you press home the attack. I guess the "Good" environmentalist just can't bring himself to kill to save his and his children's lives. It looked like something a teenager would write. For the writer and director's sake, I hope this catastrophe was the result of better parts being left on the cutting room floor. Maybe the short segments that didn't develop were because of time constraints. Who knows? Advice to Redbox (where I got this movie), please put better movies at your locations? I have rented several movies with well known actors that have turned out to be dogs. You business is getting the reputation for being a repository of dumb movies.

I watched about 40 minutes before I realised how junk the play off of this film was going to be...

After the basic character build (which was decent) the film just descended to a big clichéd mess. *Semi Spoiler* "Watch out for the river current" because any simple knowledge of water seems to go a miss with the kids and surely enough as I skip through the film, hey look! Kids fallen into the river rapids! /Spoiler

This film is an absolute joke, after watching many 'manufactured' films (Production companies pumping budgets into making any old crap in the hopes of making a profit in the opening weekend before everyone relays how bad it is...) this is the one that has finally got me to sign up for an IMDb account to write reviews to throw down the bad and praise the good.

The film industry has become very competitive and Breakout(2013) just isn't up to par at all...

Seriously this movie is rubbish. Tommy Baxter misses 8 shots at 80m with a 40x scoped rifle. He not only misses, but lucky for him gets close and hits the hull of the canoe about 1.5m away from a human target. He would have to be the worst shot in movie outdoor history LMAO At that range anyone half competent would be deciding between a head or body shot

Pleeease - stop the rubbish 😂

The main antagonist must have carried 5000 rounds and never had to reload, and this with a with a bolt-action rifle. Additionally, in terms of shooting accuracy, he couldn't hit the ground with his feet. While this movie was tense at times, it was so lacking in detail accuracy that it distracted you from the rest of the story.

Shooting a (very) sawed-off 12ga at 100+ yards didn't help either. The Daughter's phone seemed to have a full charge and great reception in very remote areas. The one bright spot was the bad guy's friend/brother, who seemed to be sharper/tougher than anyone else in the movie. I'm glad this was only .50 @ Redbox.

I too have to state my disappointment with this movie, a couple of things that had us yelling at the screen and there were lots i.e the kids after escaping might have gone back to their camp, the bad guy didn't go to the camp either, even though he knew there was one!!they all seem to be running around in circles, Brendon said he could track, yea right. after seeing Brendon appearance for the second time and each time after that my family would all call out "Run" cause that's what he was yelling out, won't mention the rifle thing, except the bad guy did use the scope to sight his quarry but not when shooting it, may be a sporting chance. and to finish, Brendon looked for ever scared silly, and what was the point of him taking a swim towards the end. it was unreal, on a positive side it did keep the wife awake the whole time, and not many movies can make that claim.

One dimensional villains and a very noisy soundtrack of intense action makes this outdoorsy thriller too unbelievable and headache inducing. A direct to DVD release (and I can see why), this is one step barely above an Asylum film, had they decided to rip off "The River Wild" with their usual annoying cliched characters and stock bad guys.

It takes forever for the real plotline of this to begin, about half an hour. You shouldn't have that long for character development especially when that part of the script just isn't any good. It's a messy opening without believable motivation that has father Brendan Fraser neglecting his family for environmental issues which ends up with him in jail. Once he's out, he's thrown into the crisis of trying to find his children who have been white water rafting and over here the shots of the murder being committed which has the killers on their trail.

Fraser's a great actor, one of my favorites to come out of the past 30 or 40 years, and it's a shame that his career has been derailed for Hollywood political reasons. To make a living, he has taken roles in films not worthy of his name, and he's one of the saving graces of this movie. Fortunately the actors playing his kids are not cloying ( a rare occurrence not felt in many recent films), and the villains are downright rotten without remorse. You know how this is going to turn out so basically it's 90 + minutes of very loud synthesized music (mostly base), and thus predictable and unnecessary. One of the lesser villains keeps referring to Fraser's wife as mama which is actually pretty sick. I didn't exactly hate this movie, but it's one that I really could have done without although I did enjoy scenes in the woods where I imagined the birds, bees and squirrels chanting simultaneously "Uh oh. There goes the neighborhood."

This is a curious movie. There is a decent set-up. The main characters are defined. Brandon Fraser plays a likable character. His character goes to prison because of an accident which leads to the death of an authority. While he is in prison, his children, a 16 year old girl and 13 year old boy, go camping along a river with a friend of the family. The paths of an evil guy and his mentally challenged brother intersect with Fraser's children during the camping trip, leading to the dreaded chase you have seen 100 times before. The evil character is over-the-top in his rage. No one acting like him could last 5 seconds in society without being jailed. There are severally shoot-outs between Fraser and the evil guy. Boy, these guys are bad shots! The children are whiny, shouty and completely annoying. The development of the mentally challenged character is downright bizarre. Although the plot manipulates you into feeling sorrow for him, and pride in his final actions, it apparently forgets the cruelty he exhibits to another character mid-way through the movie. The likability of Fraser's character erodes as the movie progresses. The set-up leading to Fraser's character getting into the chase was implausible. This movie could have been so much better. Watching it was a chore. There was no genuine excitement. I did not care about any of the characters by the end.