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04/17/01
Falling Down (1993)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:27
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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,... [More]
Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin
Director: Joel Schumacher
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01/26/06
Top CriticA heavy-handed potboiler, but as it raises the temperature, it does give cause to consider the line--so easily crossed--between social function and disasterous personal undoing. [Blu-ray]
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01/02/04
A crude, cathartic rant that both condemns and exploits modern paranoia.
02/03/08
Douglas' portrayal of a man heading for the abyss is utterly convincing.
04/02/01
Dealing with urban paranoia from a White POV is a good, timely idea, but film can't decide whether Michael Douglas is an ordinary or psychopathic man and whether we should feel sympathy or pity for the "victimization" of this yuppie.
06/25/06
It's hard not to root for this embodiment of white man's angst ... the ending seems stilted, as if to say "we must openly condemn him while we secretly admire him."
03/19/03
...holds up pretty well today, even if its tone meanders all over the place.
05/24/09
An uneven and frequently pretentious story that is never as important or dramatic as it thinks it is.
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