Falling Down
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 35 Ratings
- Starring: Barbara Hershey, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall
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- Director: Joel Schumacher
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Positive: 11 out of 21
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Mixed: 6 out of 21
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Negative: 4 out of 21
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100A few times every year, Hollywood makes a mistake, violates formula and actually makes a great picture. Falling Down is one of the great mistakes of 1993, a film too good and too original to win any Oscars but one bound to be remembered in years to come as a true and ironic statement about life in our time. [26 Feb 1993, p.D1]
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80While the morality of D-Fens methods are questionable, there's a resonance about his reaction to everyday annoyances, and Michael Douglas' hypnotic performance makes it memorable.
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50Slickly directed by Joel Schumacher, who sees that each and every button in this unabashedly manipulative film is pushed hard, Falling Down could have been deeply disturbing if it weren't so cartoony, so determined to glibly escape the moral consequences of the vicarious white-rampage fantasies to which it caters. [26 Feb 1993, p.25]
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38Falling Down is an intellectually sloppy, rebellious working-man adventure film that is little more than a set piece for Michael Douglas playing out a revenge-of-the-nerds fantasy. [26 Feb 1993, p.C]
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Positive: 9 out of 10
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Mixed: 0 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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