Workmanlike where it should be sensual, it fails to capture the romantic obsessions that dominate Greene's work.
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11/23/02
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
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Seductive and smart, a canny examination of that uneasy merger between the personal and the political.
11/23/02
It is a timely film and a transporting one.
11/23/02
Belonging to a different era in filmmaking and a different ethic in literature.
11/22/02
This is intelligent grown-up entertainment on both a political and a humanistic level.
11/22/02
Top CriticCaine's performance as Fowler is simply outstanding.
11/22/02
Strong, haunting and couldn't be more timely.
11/22/02
Highly recommended viewing for its courage, ideas, technical proficiency and great acting.
11/22/02
An intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quality.
11/22/02
It works not only as a love triangle drama, but as a political thriller and a murder mystery.
11/22/02
A film of delicate interpersonal dances. Caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose. It’s a sight to behold.
11/22/02
You've gotta see this movie.
11/22/02
Top CriticEverything about The Quiet American is good, except its timing.
11/22/02
Visually disappointing.
11/22/02
Belongs in the company of The Year of Living Dangerously and other bold cross-cultural cinematic masterpieces; it couldn't be more timely with its critique of the arrogance of a nation that sets out to be the world's policeman.
11/22/02
Does a superb job of evoking the psychological world of Graham Greene in which the truth of any situation tends to be hidden and riddled with ambiguities.
11/21/02
Top CriticA graceful, contemplative film that gradually and artfully draws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally intertwined.
11/21/02
A gripping drama that forcefully brings history to life.
11/21/02
[Noyce] has made a good-looking, intelligent stab at the novel, mildly undermined by a tendency to seek contemporary relevance.
11/21/02
[A] superbly controlled, passionate adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel.
11/21/02
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