Falling Down

I’ve been collecting my thoughts on Schumacher as a filmmaker as I get closer to the halfway mark of his feature film output, and a thought came to me after I finished what may be his best received film, Falling Down. Could it have been better…made by someone else? I’ve been getting this sense from him that his touch tended to make scripts worse, that his narrative instincts were so off that even when the product overall is solidly good and pretty easily his best film of his career, that it ...