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A haunted Afghanistan war veteran attempts to come to terms with his past while searching for his family in a post-apocalyptic America.
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50
LaBeouf's quivering instability creates the impression that his performance is constantly buffering on us. He's never dull — he is, in fact, a compelling actor in any circumstance — but the material ends up cheapening the experiences of so many real-life veterans, which surely was not the filmmakers' intention.
40
Forgotten or subject to overkill as they are here, veterans still get the shaft.
40
I can give the filmmakers — director Dito Montiel and screenwriter Adam G. Simon — the benefit of the doubt on good intentions, but their approach doesn’t tug at the heartstrings so much as it pistol-whips the audience with its grandiose and (ineptly) manipulative storytelling.
38
Slant Magazine
Dito Montiel's silly plot machinations waste a solid performance from Shia LaBeouf.
33
The low-wattage, high-concept psychological drama Man Down is too misbegotten to be rescued by Shia LaBeouf’s Method lead performance; in fact, the most interesting thing about it is his masochistic commitment to the film.
