BREAKING heralds its arrival as a modern day version of Dog Day Afternoon, the 1973 bank robbery movie with Al Pacino. While it makes a gallant attempt, those are pretty big shoes to fill and it's doubtful that fifty years from now BREAKING will be remembered on any level even close to Dog Day. Nonetheless, British actor extraordinaire John Boyega gives an admirable performance as a hostage-taking robber who simply wants eight hundred dollars the VA took from him by error to be put back into his account.
Of course all this brings out the SWAT team and a laid-back negotiator played by Michael K Williams. With the robber also involving a news anchor, his ex wife and the bank manager in his ordeal, the race is on to diffuse the situation.
The movie is just a tad too chatty for a bank robbery flick, it seems to want to be more of a character driven piece. I may have stuck at least one or two more action oriented scenes in. Still, it's more than a worthy addition to the bank robbery genre. BREAKING is available on all the VOD outlets. 3.0 stars/5
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