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08/02/03
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The Quiet American (2002)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:31
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Thoughtful and wonderfully acted, The Quiet American manages to capture the spirit of Green's novel.
Theatrical Release:Nov 22, 2002 Limited
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]
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Reviews for The Quiet American
Top CriticFor Caine, it's a peak performance in a career that has had many of them.
02/07/03
Top CriticOld-fashioned storytelling in the best sense of the term.
02/07/03
Top CriticThis is a smart and literate effort that despite some weaknesses in overall conception has one undeniable virtue: There's not a single weak scene.
02/07/03
Top CriticA fine film anchored by a terrific performance by one of cinema's most accomplished actors.
02/07/03
Top CriticCaine is the center of this film and he's never been more brilliant and less blinding.
02/07/03
Top CriticThis story still seems timely and important. And there's an element of heartbreak to watching it now, with older and wiser eyes, because we know what will happen after Greene's story ends.
02/07/03
Top CriticA rare Western feature shot in Vietnam, with real locations and sets that look well-worn enough to be real, with wonderful performances.
02/07/03
Top Criticraser has finally made good on his hesitant dramatic turn in Gods and Monsters a few years back.
02/07/03
Top CriticThe narrative is lean, the supporting performances are solid, and, perhaps most crucially, the emotional tone of the piece is spot-on.
02/07/03
Top CriticCaine's imperial world weariness gives the movie a vital potency.
02/07/03
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticExceedingly handsome, unapologetically intelligent drama.
02/07/03
Top CriticIt's Caine who gives the movie depth.
02/07/03
Top CriticIn 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
Top CriticPhillip 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
Top CriticThis version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire.
02/06/03
Top CriticCaine creates a portrait of a man torn up by ambivalence, and, in the end, despair, that is just about brilliant.
02/06/03
Top CriticAn 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
Top CriticNoyce has wrought an often-compelling tale of life, love, and jealousy played out under the gathering storm clouds of war.
02/06/03
Top CriticLatest News for The Quiet American
April 29, 2008:
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