Falling Down

When American actors go on the rampage, they make other players look like wimps.

This film, which pinpoints the growing frustrations of Middle America, achieves its virtuoso form from the endless energy Michael Douglas shows as an ordinary guy, a mid-rank executive, whose car is gridlocked on the way home. One bit of road rage leads to a greater display of lawlessness and then, as if high on the pent-up destructiveness his life so far has held for him, Douglas's ordinary, decent guy becomes a one-man crimewave as he makes his way across the city to his home with cop Robert Duvall on his heels.

Fast-food restaurants, bolshie Korean storeowners, teen-age hoodlums, posh country-club sets - all meet his explosive revenge on a society that has failed him. Gripping.

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