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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3/4 |
A 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] Full Review |
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6/10 |
...holds up pretty well today, even if its tone meanders all over the place. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Maybe Michael Douglas' best work, he as the depressed man driven to madness.
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4/5 |
Joel Schumacher's best film.
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 3/5 |
A crude, cathartic rant that both condemns and exploits modern paranoia. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Douglas' tortured misfit is a chore to watch.
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4/5 |
A powerful, gripping, darkly humorous film with a dynamite lead performance by Michael Douglas. One of 1993's ten-best films.
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3/5 |
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3/5 |
Douglas as you've never seen him before
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It's half a really good movie, and half a mediocre one with a good actor.
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