Downhill is best watched without having seen Force Majeure because the comparisons are so unflattering.

Downhill is a good example of a well-regarded foreign language film that translates badly as an American remake.

The film oversimplifies the complexities of the original, however contrived they might have been, and generally lacks Östlund's subtlety and plaintiveness.

There's not a lot of chemistry between Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and that's the biggest issue in the film.