Kryptik Kritik
Entrou em fev. de 2000
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This is one of those pre-Cannon sleaze-balls of a film; made back in early 1980, by James Glickenhaus.
Gintry (our hero,) begins his tale in Vietnam where he and his friend are held captive by the V-Congs. The scene recalls a very dated but still grotesque and nicely done decapitation of an American POW. Of course, they escape and do away with the bad-guys.
Skip to 1980, New York.
Gintry and his Pal are working at a meat-packing plant, when a couple of thugs decide to loot some free-beer. The pair stumble on to them and wind up kicking their ass. Some time later, on his way home from work, the gang tracks down Gintry's buddy and leave him a brain-dead veggie.
So Gintry decides to get even. He tracks them down to an apartment where he takes them out and then goes to take out the rest of the city's trash as well.
However, the film's real failure is to explain why Gintry decides to go after the rest of the city rather than just being satisfied with taking those who did him any wrong. Also, the mayor and his goon-squad were as unconvincing characters as any. They're in an office talking about how some vigilante's prescience will cost him an election, while ignoring the fact that doing nothing about the city's colossal crime rate will do more damage to his next election.
The Chicken-house scene is gratitous and will leave a memory in one's mind for many years to follow. This is perhaps the movie's most disturbing moment. Otherwise, it has a nice, talented cast for such a low-budget who play out fine and it is definitely a worthwhile time-waster.
Gintry (our hero,) begins his tale in Vietnam where he and his friend are held captive by the V-Congs. The scene recalls a very dated but still grotesque and nicely done decapitation of an American POW. Of course, they escape and do away with the bad-guys.
Skip to 1980, New York.
Gintry and his Pal are working at a meat-packing plant, when a couple of thugs decide to loot some free-beer. The pair stumble on to them and wind up kicking their ass. Some time later, on his way home from work, the gang tracks down Gintry's buddy and leave him a brain-dead veggie.
So Gintry decides to get even. He tracks them down to an apartment where he takes them out and then goes to take out the rest of the city's trash as well.
However, the film's real failure is to explain why Gintry decides to go after the rest of the city rather than just being satisfied with taking those who did him any wrong. Also, the mayor and his goon-squad were as unconvincing characters as any. They're in an office talking about how some vigilante's prescience will cost him an election, while ignoring the fact that doing nothing about the city's colossal crime rate will do more damage to his next election.
The Chicken-house scene is gratitous and will leave a memory in one's mind for many years to follow. This is perhaps the movie's most disturbing moment. Otherwise, it has a nice, talented cast for such a low-budget who play out fine and it is definitely a worthwhile time-waster.
I caught this on one of the many HBO channels, one night, a month or so back. It was absolutely fantastic!
The one thing that really added a lot of character to the protagonist, was how he led his wife on his leash, while he secretly lusted after his long-time mistress, who he couldn't have because she was Egyptian. This really dulls down the non-stop killing machine, which most characters of this sort turn out to be throughout the film. Otherwise, he's an all-around nasty dude, killing people and setting others up for the fall, until he finally meets his by his own uncle's hand.
Elsewhere, I thought the little brothel at the beginning was far-out! A real avant-garde scene, which set the mood and atmosphere for the rest of the film. Nicely done and woven into the story, I thought.
BTW, Kudos to McDowell who's an excellent but very underrated actor. He and several other notable faces were what separated this from the rest of its contemporaries, in that the acting and dialogue actually had some quality to it too. A real plus!
A must-see for all those who are into underground or exploitation cinema.
The one thing that really added a lot of character to the protagonist, was how he led his wife on his leash, while he secretly lusted after his long-time mistress, who he couldn't have because she was Egyptian. This really dulls down the non-stop killing machine, which most characters of this sort turn out to be throughout the film. Otherwise, he's an all-around nasty dude, killing people and setting others up for the fall, until he finally meets his by his own uncle's hand.
Elsewhere, I thought the little brothel at the beginning was far-out! A real avant-garde scene, which set the mood and atmosphere for the rest of the film. Nicely done and woven into the story, I thought.
BTW, Kudos to McDowell who's an excellent but very underrated actor. He and several other notable faces were what separated this from the rest of its contemporaries, in that the acting and dialogue actually had some quality to it too. A real plus!
A must-see for all those who are into underground or exploitation cinema.
This is a film, which definitely fulfills my kind of pro-Right Wing worldview. However; coming from a director/producer like Schumacher,
I am rather cynical about its sincerity, since many of Schumacher's previous projects, esp. those based on the Grisham novels, seemed to
me, to be completely the reverse in ideology, and left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Of course, critics have, since its release, have knocked for being "racist," since it blamed "minorities" for a majority of the crime, chaos and destruction, when a hard-hitting reality-check, would simply reveal that it is simply refusing to be too PC to NOT reveal this. Of course, I don't recall, hearing any racial slurs used in the film or anything really more suggestive than most other action films; put out these days. Most of the people, IMHO, who come out, and accuse Falling Down, for that, are simply overreacting and quiet idiotically, like some of the REVIEWERS on this board.
Otherwise, this is a definite must see for folks who are into working-class hero type flicks.
I am rather cynical about its sincerity, since many of Schumacher's previous projects, esp. those based on the Grisham novels, seemed to
me, to be completely the reverse in ideology, and left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Of course, critics have, since its release, have knocked for being "racist," since it blamed "minorities" for a majority of the crime, chaos and destruction, when a hard-hitting reality-check, would simply reveal that it is simply refusing to be too PC to NOT reveal this. Of course, I don't recall, hearing any racial slurs used in the film or anything really more suggestive than most other action films; put out these days. Most of the people, IMHO, who come out, and accuse Falling Down, for that, are simply overreacting and quiet idiotically, like some of the REVIEWERS on this board.
Otherwise, this is a definite must see for folks who are into working-class hero type flicks.