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Falling Down

1993

Joel Schumacher

Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin ...

6.8

23,768

Drama A laid-off defense worker, kept from seeing his child on her birthday by a restraining order, looks at the landscape of moral decay in Los Angeles on one hot, congested day and, after being mugged, snaps. What follows is his bitter and pathetic mission of justice, vengeance and vindication that reads uncomfortably like too many news stories. Michael Douglas is identified only by his character's license plate, D-FENS, in this attack on ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Falling Down' does a good job of representing a real feeling in our society today. It would be a shame if it is seen only on a superficial level (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Although it takes a number of wrong turns, Falling Down still has the power to disturb."	NEU
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"As a description of our collective recession-era funk, 'Falling Down' is to the early '90s what 'Network' was to the late '70s."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Falling Down is a brutally manipulative revenge fantasy (...) Nothing in Falling Down is very believable, least of all that Douglas,"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ali Barclay BBC	"It is a worrying and unnerving reflection of our society, which will certainly make you wonder about the quality of life you strive to maintain."	POS
United Kingdom	Steve Grant Time Out	"Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, and certainly unnerving."	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"It turns one man's slide toward madness into a wickedly mischievous, entertaining suspense thriller."	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Aside from the movie’s pervading bitterness, Schumacher also creates a rather uneven tone, with a few darkly comic flourishes early and nothing to laugh about later on."	NEU

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