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Is the do in missed gentleman a innocent blood Patriot games a a i split second traces of bed under siege aaa White men can t jump a w ratings by staff writer Chuck Emch Warner bios. Michael Douglas plays a fens who has gone Over the Edge and is confronted by gang members in falling Down Chuck v1nch Stan write Ron Momi falling Down Rator a aaa Mutt aaa Worth you time a a passable a coming soon to a a Jao outlet near you and you can wait anyone who feels paranoid about the breakdown of order and civility All around us these Days will come out of this film totally spooked. It s a deeply flawed but savagely riveting Urban fantasy starring Michael Douglas As a Man who just can t take it anymore and goes on a rampage against a slew of grievances both real and imagined. Director Joel Schumacher and Riter Ebbe Roe Smith hold a Mirror to the National consciousness and the View is not pretty. This is one of the strangest and most unsettling movies in recent memory yet it strikes a contemporary raw Neive in the same Way Nie Forit did two decades ago. Every Frame is calculated to heighten he darkest fears of suburban citizens who feel impotent in the midst of a violent society that seems to be falling Down around our ears. This is evident from the first scene which opens with an extreme closeup of William Foster Douglas who is re furred to for most of the movie Only by his License plate acronym a fens. Foster is an everyman a Buzz Cut Hom rimmed glasses White Short sleeve shirt plastic pocket protector bulging with pens. He s stuck in an infamous los Angeles traffic Jam looking slightly nauseous As he is forced to observe the fetid mass of humanity surrounding him. On this Day something in him snaps and he Abandons his car. Quot where do you think you re going Quot a Guy behind him yells. Quot i m going Home Quot Foster says As he strides away intending to return to the House he once shared with his sex wife Beth Barbara Hershey to see his Young daughter Adele Joey Hope Singer on her birthday. Thus begins a bizarre Odyssey across the Underbelly of los Angeles carving a path of Seething rage through the Bleak Urban landscape Foster engages in a series of escalating confrontations with various archetypes ranging from rude grocers to heavily armed Street thugs. He acquires an increasingly lethal Arsenal along the Way starting with a baseball Bat and ending with a Bazooka As he edges closer to Beth and Adele a and his Fate. Schumacher uses a Quick Cut mtg style for Many scenes to Catalon americans social Urban and economic ills. These Range from the mundane obnoxious jerks at pay phones plastic surgeons to the More serious homeless veterans aids victims drug addicts muggers Neo nazis. In a broader sense Foster and Beth also serve As totems. He is the faithful corporate drone who has been heart Lessly cast aside and rendered obsolete in this Case through the defense cutbacks engendered by the close of the cold War. She exemplifies the failure of our judicial systems stalking Laws to protect women from abusive sex husbands. While the film adeptly showcases All these problems it has virtually nothing to say about any of them. And it s not As if this is particularly revelatory stuff. Regular viewers of the evening news Are already numbingly familiar with the bloody violence and senseless degradations of life in late-20th Century America in a visceral sense Foster s adventure is fun to watch at least for a while. We can appreciate his motives if not his methods when he pulls an Uzi on a smug fast food Geek who won t serve him breakfast even though it s Only two minutes into the lunch hour. But As that incident Illus rates Foster is by no Means just an a innocent victim and this is probably the film s biggest failing. He s twisted in ways that make Beth s obvious fear of him appear to be Well founded. Quot do you know its still Legal in some South american countries to kill your wife if she insults you Quot he hisses in a menacing phone Call. It grows increasingly difficult to identify with Foster As his targets become More dubious a Road repair Crew a couple of snotty old golfers and his responses More disproportionate but not until very late in the film after he is tracked Down by a dogged cop working his last shift before retirement Robert Duvall doing his Best with a weakly drawn role does it Dawn on Foster that he s part of the problem. Quot i m the bad Guy a he asks in astonishment. Quot How d that happen Quot a movie does no to necessarily have to be great to deliver a punch to the guts and falling Down certainly fits that Bill in amplifying some of our most Basic fears and anxieties in a visually gripping Way it proves to be powerfully mesmerizing despite its contradictory themes and essential repulsive Ness. That s probably Why it feels so seamy to give it three stars. Page 12 a sunday March 7, 1993
