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Man Down

2015

Dito Montiel

Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, Jai Courtney, Gary Oldman ...

4.6

134

War. Thriller When U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer (Shia LaBeouf) returns home from his tour in Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best friend Devin Roberts (Jai Courtney), a hard-nosed marine whose natural instinct is to shoot first and ask questions later, he searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son, Jonathan (Charlie Shotwell) and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"As a combat vet, Shia LaBeouf never once believable. (...) The final sequence (...) is overwrought, excruciatingly shrill, manipulative, and exploitative (...) Like the rest of the film, it’s a cheap misfire.(...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Montiel may have had honorable intentions in creating this movie. But what he made is neither a viable work of art nor an effective call to action. It's a sadistic and ghoulish spectacle"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A quasi-allegorical plea for Americans to take better care of their veterans, but even its best ideas are half-baked"	NEG
United States	New York Daily News	"An admirable, but muddled attempt to present a new perspective on the mental damage of war (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Man Down is a bad film, but it's made even worse by the taste it will leave in your mouth regarding its silly handling of a very serious issue (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An oppressive cloud of macho self-pity hangs over this muddled and overwrought movie, which involves a cliched narrative device that is glib and unsatisfying (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Incoherent, deranged PTSD drama is an insult to the intelligence (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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