Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Rating: 8.5/10
This film is about an ordinary man called William Foster (Michael Douglas) who is trying to reach the home of his ex-wife in time for his young daughter’s birthday party. He is met with increasingly frustrating obstacles en route, such as a restaurant that stopped serving breakfast four minutes ago, a band of construction workers who are holding up traffic for no reason, and a golfer who refuses to let him pass through his course. He responds to these hindrances with greater and greater violence until, by the end of the film, he has severely injured 4 and killed 2 people.
I really enjoyed this film. I thought the acting was brilliant, the script wasn’t at all corny, and overall it was very well done. *spoilers ahead!* I especially liked the very end scene, in which a policeman catches up with Foster and holds a gun on him, trying to arrest him. Foster counts to three, saying that at the end of the countdown, he will pull a gun out of his pocket and shoot the policeman if the policeman doesn’t shoot him first. He does indeed pull a gun on the policeman, but is shot dead first. As he falls over the pier and into the water, we see that the gun Foster pulled on the cop was just his daughter’s harmless water pistol.
