Joel Schumacher's Falling Down follows an unemployed defense worker (Douglas) with a temper problem. Seeing "flaws" and "problems" in society, one day he violently and psychotically lashes out against them. A cop about to retire (Duvall) spends his last day trying to hunt him down and stop his violence. The characters are very much off the wall and unique, yet don't quite work. They're too extreme. The story escalates formulaically, but doesn't follow the formula to the end. It starts too exaggerated and goes sideways halfway through instead of finishing with the explosive finale expected. The acting was actually pretty good (Duvall's laugh was amazing). I liked the intro (a ripoff, but a good ripoff, of the intro to 8 1/2); it was incredible at eliciting discomfort and an unsettling atmosphere. The rest of the movie is so ludicrous that it becomes laughable, but is fun and funny in its caricatures. This isn't a good movie, but it's enjoyable in the same way Sameer can place Crash in his top ten comedies.IMDb link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0106856/