“A lot of the reviews for “Falling Down” are going to compare it to earlier movies about white men who go berserk: “Joe,” for example, or “Death Wish.” Some will even find it racist because the targets of the film’s hero are African-American, Latino and Korean – with a few whites thrown in for balance. Both of these approaches represent a facile reading of the film, which is actually about a great sadness which turns into madness, and which can afflict anyone who is told, after many years of hard work, that he is unnecessary and irrelevant.” -Roger Ebert