With her father's musical blood running through her veins, Dixie closes the movie by singing a song she wrote at the memorial for the fallen soldiers.

The website's consensus reads: "A cliched attempt at a feel-good drama, Broken Bridges is schmaltzy, predictable, and stiffly acted.

"[4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 32 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[5] Joe Leydon of Variety wrote: "It's obviously intended as a star vehicle, but Broken Bridges turns out to be a rattletrap jalopy for country music performer Toby Keith.

"[6] Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide gave it 2 out of 4 and wrote: "The Country Music Channel's first foray into feature filmmaking is sickly sweet and thoroughly predictable.