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Falling Down
Falling Down follows a borderline personality disordered defense worker who is so frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society that he breaks down and goes on a violent rampage. No one can stop him from leaving a trail of broken bodies and devastation while he inexorably makes his way toward his daughter.
29 May 1958, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
26 October 1954, Highland Park, Illinois, USA
26 September 1952, Buffalo, New York, USA
23 August 1961
23 December 1936, Waxahachie, Texas, USA
1 November 1958, Bronx, New York, USA
30 December 1932, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1 May 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
May 24, 2009
...holds up pretty well today, even if its tone meanders all over the place.
May 20, 2003
It turns one man's slide toward madness into a wickedly mischievous, entertaining suspense thriller.
March 31, 2008
A real artist could make something incisive or darkly hilarious out of this moral tightrope act. Schumacher, veering recklessly between social satire, kick-ass fantasy and damsel-in-distress melodrama, plays the game for opportunistic cheap thrills.
June 01, 2009
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]
January 10, 2010
The character of William Foster (simply called D-Fens in the closing credits) represents an element of our collective id.
July 18, 2011
What makes this an innovative film is Joel Schumacher's bold eschewing of the good-guy-verses-bad-guy Hollywood convention.
July 18, 2011
Let's face it, there is an element of truth in the character of D-FENS. But it is, finally, tabloid truth.
December 07, 2009
Atrociously written by actor Ebbe Roe Smith and atrociously directed (it goes without saying) by Joel Schumacher...
March 26, 2009
At first comes across like a mean-spirited black comedy and then snowballs into a reasonably powerful portrait of social alienation. The tone is unremittingly dour, however.
January 26, 2006
Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, and certainly unnerving.
July 18, 2011
None of the characters ever rises beyond the level of his or her generic functions, and by the end the overall emptiness of the conception becomes fully apparent.
July 18, 2011
These adventures would be offensive if you could take them seriously, so it's probably good that you can't.