Very intense nonsense drama. Very bad man won't let his best hitman retire. Apparently doesn't understand that a guy who kills people for a living can just as easily kill Very Bad Man. Gratuitous segue with daughter being given roofies. Wife inexplicably able to save Best Hitman when he is on a job at a location he told no one about. She's still wearing her Sunday go to Meeting clothes, and leaves daughter "out in the car" while she runs into the trailer to shoot old friend in the back just-in-time. Then BestHitman takes them home, VBM sends goons, although one dies somehow somewhere en route. Then the goons decide to go slow instead of just finish the dang job, so the BestHitman, his wife in church clothes, and strong-daughter-hiding-under-pillows pull it out. You've wasted as much time as you need to just reading this review.

I watch the new British films emerging from a generation of filmmakers trained in the language of Hollywood realism and soaps and TV detectives/villains and wonder if anyone who gets involves in making cinema like this realises what a waste it all is..same terrible copies of every other kind of cliché/stereotype/scene structure/shot style/music soundtrack that has been a massive bore time and again. Dreadful script, appalling characterisation,violence,lots of blood,gore,and for what ? For no one to see it in a cinema,or anywhere else with luck, all for the sake of making "a film".Those who made this should be ashamed .....when there are so many ordinary people's lives in Britain totally ignored by mainstream media, hidden behind crap like this so called film.

In the story of "Breakdown," there is a fascinating premise about a career criminal killer with a conscience. The protagonist named Alfie (Craig Fairbrass) belongs to crime syndicate specializing in sadistic killings. But Alfie's breakdown occurs when he starts to have visions of the past atrocities for which he was responsible. The drama that unfolds is how Alfie must find a way to get out of the business of killing.Sadly, the good potential of the film as a character study is overshadowed by the excessive violence. Not only were the gruesome scenes prolonged beyond the pale, but they were often not very believable. This was especially true when Alfie enlists his wife and teenage daughter into the never-ending string of killings.There was a good cast led ably by Fairbrass as Alfie. But the filmmakers' focus on the screen violence made the film virtually unwatchable in places.

First off the poster is completely misleading. There is no London Skyline, helicopters, swat teams, actually no police at all for a change in this genre. Furthermore, Tamser Hassan only has a brief cameo where he does not carry a gun. Overall a good effort with a number of good performances, Emmett Scanlon stands out. After a believable and sometimes gripping first 2 acts it is let down with a clichéd final act. particularly the main character using his family in a fight against trained assassins,totally absurd. For the best assassin in the business he and family get away with what only can be described with as sheer luck in the end.