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02/07/03
The Quiet American (2002)
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Reviews Counted:140
Fresh:124
Rotten:16
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: Thoughtful and wonderfully acted, The Quiet American manages to capture the spirit of Green's novel.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $12,843,884
Synopsis: Set in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1952 during the French Indochina war, THE QUIET AMERICAN is based on the mystery story by Graham Greene, and directed by Phillip Noyce. A middle-aged British reporter for... [More]
Reviews for The Quiet American
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The result is a rarity on the modern screen -- a film with more brains than heart. Yet that alone makes for a pleasant change.
02/07/03
Exceedingly handsome, unapologetically intelligent drama.
02/07/03
It's Caine who gives the movie depth.
02/07/03
In a seemingly effortless performance, Caine dominates every scene in the film, not by what he does but by what he doesn't do.
02/07/03
Phillip Noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, Christopher Doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of Greene's prose, and it's there on the screen in their version of The Quiet American.
02/07/03
The movie may be named after The Quiet American, but it's the quiet British guy who steals the show.
02/07/03
A haunting, rich film...[Fraser] and Caine blend beautifully with their sweet-and-sour mix of acting.
02/06/03
An exquisitely paced movie that pulls the rug out from under us but doesn't cheat in the process.
02/06/03
A wonderfully atmospheric, beautifully acted, first-rate historical epic.
02/06/03
This version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire.
02/06/03
A fine adaptation despite the slight departures from its source, with warm cinematography that captures the feel of '50s Saigon and two performances worthy of Oscar attention.
02/06/03
Caine creates a portrait of a man torn up by ambivalence, and, in the end, despair, that is just about brilliant.
02/06/03
An instant classic and a dramatic beauty, a film that gets us to the core of Greene's chilly, dark and romantic view of the post-war world.
02/06/03
Noyce has wrought an often-compelling tale of life, love, and jealousy played out under the gathering storm clouds of war.
02/06/03
Caine comes close to 'the best work he's ever done' in this shipshape, despairingly cynical adaptation of Graham Greene's eerily prescient 1955 novel.
02/04/03
It's hard to imagine a tighter, more gripping adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel.
02/01/03
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01/31/03
Director Noyce meticulously presents Graham Greene's morality tale about a troubled man and his imperiled adopted country.
01/30/03
It strikes hardest… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain. Fifty years after the fact, the world's political situation seems little different, and [director Phillip] Noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill.
01/20/03
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