DVD Review: Falling Down (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Tuesday Weld, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Lois Smith, Joey Hope Singer, Ebbe Roe Smith, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond J. Barry, D.W. Moffett, Joel Schumacher, Arnold Kopelson, Arnon Milchan, Dan Kolsrud, Herschel Weingrod, John J. Tomko: Movies & TV

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DVD Review: Falling Down (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Tuesday Weld, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Lois Smith, Joey Hope Singer, Ebbe Roe Smith, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond J. Barry, D.W. Moffett, Joel Schumacher, Arnold Kopelson, Arnon Milchan, Dan Kolsrud, Herschel Weingrod, John J. Tomko: Movies & TV

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This film, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. In fact, it’s nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek’s meltdown. Douglas, complete with pocket protector, nerd glasses, crewcut, and short-sleeved white shirt, gets stuck in traffic one day near downtown L.A. and proceeds to just walk away from his car–and then lose it emotionally. Everyone he encounters rubs him the wrong way–and a fine lot of stereotypes they are, from threatening ghetto punks to rude convenience store owners to a creepy white supremacist–and he reacts violently in every case. As he walks across L.A. (now there’s a concept), cutting a bloody swath, he’s being tracked by a cop on the verge of retirement (Robert Duvall). He also spends time on the phone with his frightened ex-wife (Barbara Hershey). Though Douglas and Duvall give stellar performances, they can’t disguise the fact that, as usual, this is another film from director Joel Schumacher that is about surface and sensation, rather than actual substance. –Marshall Fine

Product Description
Freeways are clogged. Terror stalks our cities. At shops and restaurants, the customer is seldom right. Pressures of big-city life can anger anyone. But Bill Foster is more than angry. Hes out to get even. Foster abandons his gridlocked car license plate D-FENS on the hottest day of the year and walks straight into an urban nightmare both absurdly funny and shatteringly violent. Academy Award winner Michael Douglas is Foster, an ordinary guy at war with the frustrations of daily life. Fellow Oscar winner Robert Duvall is the savvy cop obsessed with stopping Fosters citywide rampage. This spellbinding thriller is their story, asking “Are we falling apart?”

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A must-see! ,

By Phil Behnke (Portland, OR USA) —

This review is from: falling down [VHS] (VHS tape)

This film is absolutely captivating. Michael Douglas fit pressure one day and will wander through Los Angeles. I think it the ’s reviews of interesting when you read in this film from people in the Midwest that makes ‘ t get this movie. People in LA for a party certainly achieves. I can tell you from personal experience of living there and being held at gun point by the scumbags that anyone could push over the edge in LA. I found this movie to be fun, laugh-out-loud especially when Michael Douglas calls a “Whammy Burger” and when he was tied to its launcher after a discussion with an employee-calorie Transport. ” ‘S nothing wrong with the road, but I will give you something to fix.” Let ‘ t think that people outside of LA can be seen that scene so much. And Michael Douglas observation that golf was on my side hurt for days of painful laughter. Yes, it ill ’s but for the way he looks down and the old person who says, “And now you ‘ in reference to going to die with that on” fool’s hat, was fantastic. And how about the scene with the white supremist? If you think this movie had too many stereotypes, then you ‘ve never stay at LA. He ‘instead of HS patients with sick people where sick things happen. Yes, it ’s great that people get a shot, just a lot of people in LA deserve what happens to you what this movie boldy test. Studies have shown that the combination of tension, jams, and smog can make someone lose it. What ’s the point? The point is you should appreciate where you live while he ’s not there. Michael Douglas should have an Oscar for his performance. This was the best film of the year even though he ’s obviously not for everyone.

A film that really leaves its mark on you,

By Daniel Jolley darkgenius (Shelby, North Carolina USA) —
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This review is from: falling down (DVD)

This is a powerful film, but I personally put the ‘t look at it as a kind of social commentary or condemnation of modern society, but it certainly touches on some of the problems that always exist between humans . The fall down you can have a powerful effect on anyone who looks, though. I always leave feeling really, really strange because it touches on so many things that we all have to tolerate each day, a monster that can present ‘t help but understand a certain extent, provides us with a hero whose own life is abundant with problems you deserved, and works with your current above a current strength of the hidden sadness. Michael Douglas gives one of his best performances while Bill adoptee, an unremarkable man who finds his world torn in two, and finally just the snap. He has lost his wife and child (who is his own fault), he ’s lost his job, the one thing she did you feel important, he just wants things were like they were. He doesn ‘t want to sit in traffic almost without air conditioning or pay a dollar for a small can of soda or see plastic surgeons living the life of Riley while he can ‘t even the help of your child. Your journey home is extraordinary, and the kinds of people that he is tremendous in the way they do nothing to help his mentality. It ‘ s not hard to cheer when he manages to make an escape UCES pair of gangsters who try to steal, but does such a junction stop burger just because she refused to serve breakfast after the lunch time is obviously out there. No matter what to do terrible things to him, but I can ‘t get totally beyond the fact that he seriously wants to see your child and give him a present for his birthday, in a clearly psychotic, I find this movie somewhat touching, and that just makes the whole experience is that you press.

Robert Duvall and is actually quite good as the good cop, Prendergast, this vigilant in pursuing its last day before retirement. His life is no dream ninguì n but of course it handles its own problems in a way unlike our men took absolutely. The death of their child and a wound above her husband annoys his wife clearly made terribly heavy and vulnerable at work. To his advantage, he took a desk job and is forced to tolerate many jokes and insults of his fellow cops, including his own boss. Apart from its partner, all the cops in this film are so insensitive and cruel as some of the Adoptive shady characters meet for the trip home, and that is to me one of the most disturbing aspects of this movie.

One of the things I liked most about it was falling down his attempt to portray as adoptive a very troubled man and not a substitute for any kind of stereotypical vigilante; a particularly makes this point quite clearly when, discovering that the doesn ‘t really agree with adopting it in their own twisted, stereotypically extremist way of thinking, he asked a man just what a little vigilante he is supposed to be. My own thought is that falling down is not meant to be a warning about that for a group of potential Bill promotes festering in the middle of society, instead, showing what happens to a man, is telling us to walk carefully on our own journeys and take care to keep our spirits even when the check world seems to get away. At the same time, it doesn ‘t mean we should roll over and play absolutely always a problem that comes our way, using the character of Prendergast to show that we can and must get up for ourselves but only in a constructive manner. I have really many conflicting emotions about this film, but one thing I am certain is that the fall below is an unforgettable film well worth seeing.

Most of the film coupling Schumacher ’s done,

By Marco A. Vitchell dhaise (Orland California) —

This review is from: falling down (DVD)

Critics of the film are morons. All these characters are stereotypes, like the characters in 85% of Hollywood de ’s movies today. Filtering this film for her the ’s use of the blatent class cliché these people Misdemeanors item seekers. The people are ugly, racist and selfish. This man (with serious emotional problems) takes a look around the world (the central) and slowly beginning to analyze. How many of us can identify with the idea of the American dream gone wrong? ?Being threatened by a gang? ?Being lied to by advertising? Lie all . The representation of Michael Douglas ido a bad blow Joe is captivating. Unlike recovery , I was really rooting for the bad boy . What Douglas does what is ugly, what we see every day is ugly. Robert Duvall that (as mentioned before) is rock solid.

The DVD ’s main advantage is crystal clear audio and video. Offers the selection of the scene and the trailer. Had included some extras (like a commentary track on the MD or RD, I ‘d rate it a 5). This film is about the average man cruddy in a world that can ‘ t take it over. He could be someone you worked with or saw when you ‘with reference to get off the bus or behind waitied online. And that was the point of this movie.

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