Review of Breakout

Breakout (1975)
6/10
not very good
27 October 2005
This movie was directed by Tom Gries and has a great cast that includes Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid and John Huston. Despite that great cast this is a pretty lousy movie in which there is just too much humor that doesn't work. This came out the same year as the much better "Hard Times" and this one doesn't compare to that movie. The plot has Duvall as the grandson of Huston and Huston has Duvall thrown in a Mexican jail for a murder that he didn't commit. It's not clear why he was thrown in jail and why Huston wants him to stay there. Ireland plays Duvall's wife who hires Bronson to break Duvall out but it takes him several times. Huston is only in a few scenes and Bronson isn't very good at humor and this isn't one of Bronson's better movies.
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