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Dec 2, 2016 · “Man Down” is one of those scripts that plays games with viewer awareness, forcing us to ask what’s real and what’s not, and keeping a mystery what happened to Gabriel’s son or while he was serving our country.
Dec 2, 2016 · When U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer (Shia LaBeouf) returns from Afghanistan, he finds the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas.
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- Dito Montiel
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- Shia Labeouf
Dec 1, 2016 · By Glenn Kenny. Dec. 1, 2016. Early in “Man Down,” Gabriel, a battle-scarred Marine played by Shia LaBeouf, walks past a burned-out former factory building that’s spray-painted with the message...
- Dito Montiel
- Tell it to the Marines.
- Verdict
By Josh Lasser
Posted: Nov 30, 2016 4:00 pm
Directed by Dito Montiel, with a script from Adam G. Simon and Montiel, Man Down offers the harrowing tale of one U.S. Marine and his experiences both at home and abroad. When it is at its best, Man Down is a powerful film, but it is a movie so caught up in the trappings of storytelling and a big reveal, that all too often it trips over its own feet.
Shia LaBeouf plays lead character U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer who, along with his best friend, Devin Roberts (Jai Courtney), is seen early in the film walking through the rubble of an abandoned city. It is a post-apocalyptic cityscape, made eerie for its silence as much as for the devastation. Is it the U.S.? Is it somewhere overseas? What has caused this incredible level of devastation?
Quickly enough, however, Man Down reveals that it is not exclusively interested in this moment in time. It also offers up another time period where Drummer is being interviewed by an officer, Counselor Peyton (Gary Oldman), about an "incident." A third portion of the story tells the tale of Drummer and Roberts during their Marine Corps training at Camp Lejeune. This last also features Drummer's life with his wife, Natalie (Kate Mara), and their son, Johnathan (Charlie Shotwell).
The movie constantly moves back and forth between these three different moments in time, ever so slowly explaining how they all fit together. In the Camp Lejeune portion we learn of the friendship Roberts and Drummer have had their whole life. With Counselor Peyton we see a weakened Drummer, one who doesn't want to talk about his family back home nor whatever mysterious event took place. In the post-apocalyptic portion, we learn that Drummer and Roberts, both far more haggard than we have previously seen them, are searching for John, who has been abducted.
Man Down offers an interesting take on how traumatic events, war or otherwise, can affect how one is able to carry on with their life. What it is far less good at is convincing the audience that the journey is worth it. The shuffling between the separate time periods seems to occur not because it is essential to tell the story in that fashion, but ...
Man Down received negative reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 16%, based on 55 reviews, with an average score of 3.8/10.
Dec 2, 2016 · The story of US army man who served in Afghanistan, now returned home after a disaster in the mission. Coping with the consequences, he's not the same man as before he left the home for his national duty.
MAN DOWN attempts to cram a murky mass of plot and emotion into an hour-and-a-half of screen time. In the process, little of its meaning survived, and we're...
