Stephen Dorff plays secret service agent Jeremy Reins who suddenly awakes, confused in a back of a car, entombed in some sort of perspex case.

He has no idea where he is or how he got there. There is a red light shining on him and a digital clock counting down. When it reaches zero, it resets with another countdown but something happens in between.

Dorff who looks like a thinner Kiefer Sutherland certainly reminds you of the television series 24.

Dorff who first fears he has been kidnapped because of gambling debts realises that there are other people kidnapped as well and he can communicate with them via CB radio. He fears for the safety of his ex wife and realises that the people holding want information on the hiding place of the President in the event of an emergency evacuation.

He faces various tests including torture as the clock keeps counting down.

What is happening, who wants the information, who can he trust or is this all some sort of psychological test. This is certainly an intriguing low budget B movie.

The focus is mainly on Dorff, trapped in the trunk of a car, bathed in red light and he certainly holds your attention while many of the other actors are voices on the phone, radio or people in the car.

It is an unusual, tense film that does not outlast its welcome.

BRAKE is another one of those single-location thrillers in which a single character is trapped in just one small and claustrophobic locale for the entire running time. The Ryan Reynolds movie BURIED was the film that popularised this genre, but others have followed. I generally don't like them much but this is one of the better I've watched, and Stephen Dorff is certainly invested in his main role. The story sees him possessing certain knowledge as to the whereabouts of the US president that some bad guys are desperate to find out, so they look him in a glass tank in the boot of a car and the story goes from there. There's plenty of incident and high drama along the way, and if it is all more than a little preposterous, at least it's not dull. The twist ending's a goodie, too.

A Secret Service Agent (Stephen Dorff) is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract information for their plot against the President of the United States.

He is locked in a box that way too complicated. It's basically a 1-man play for quite a while as he talks to his capturer. I get a sense that this was some amateur writing assignment that somebody turn into a movie really cheap. The basic concept has been done before. This time it runs out of steam too soon. By the time, we are introduced to other people and hopefully drive the movie home. It's already too late. Nice try.