I'm assuming from the trailer it's going to be less Falling Down and more Parallax View (but not in a good way). And that it will be anti-MRA in tone. I'm not a fan of Brody or Eisenberg. But I'll take one for the team if no one else has seen it.
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Falling Down isn't nearly as based is it is depicted. The only person he kills is a "nazi", the way the "nazi" is characterized as a villain is by talking bad about homos. He indirectly kills the guy at the golf course who is depicted as unsympathetic because he is rich and white. DFENS first incident is a tantrum in a convenience store ranting about prices. Another was in the fast food place because he was mad the rules applied to him and advertising puffery.
The whole thing is an anti-civilizational tirade from a marxist viewpoint also with an anti-male message where the man is useless unless he is toiling for a corporation and the only way he can be heroic is to sacrifice himself for the wife who divorced him.
Dropped the movie somewhere in the middle because of this - all leftist propaganda, zero basedness.
The nazi thing is especially annoying because of your typical line of defense - oh, so you don't like him killing a nazi? You're a nazi yourself! Whereas, to borrow leftist speech here - I was expecting the movie to punch up, not punch down. I was expecting him to go against real evils or at least annoying factors of society. And no, outside of leftist propaganda (where nazis are the modern witches), nazis are not relevant at all.
The sole good scene is the McDonalds one but it's not worth the ending (which I've spoiled myself and was very glad to drop that movie).