Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 19
Noise starts with an interesting premise, but fails to build it into a cohesive whole.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 4
Noise starts with an interesting premise, but fails to build it into a cohesive whole.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 4,211
Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, and William Hurt star in writer/director Henry Bean's topical urban comedy following one man's quest for a little peace and quiet in the big city. The noise was bothersome when David Owen (Robbins) first moved to New York City, but back in those early days it was almost endearing in an odd sort of way; a forgivable manifestation of urban vitality, or so he had led himself to believe. These days the incessant barking of car alarms, traffic, and frustrated commuters
Oct 22, 2007 Wide
Sep 16, 2008
ThinkFilm
All Critics (45) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (20) | DVD (5)
How can you resist a hero who gets worked up because a car alarm disrupts his extremely tenuous grasp on a difficult but life altering passage of Hegel?
Amid the seasonal din of so many raucous summer blockbusters, Noise offers blessed relief in the form of a strong central performance, sharp dialogue and edgy humor.
Amusing but marginal.
The black comedy Noise may be a one-joke movie but it's a resonant one.
A tale of obsession and vigilantism cut with humor and a little Hegel, Henry Bean's Noise is a satisfyingly screwy New York story in which a successful businessman/family man jettisons all because he can't stand the cacophony on the street.
It's wickedly amusing for a little bit, but ultimately the film becomes what it's fighting: just noise.
Could have and should have been a demented little gem, but as it is, it's just a muddled, sloppy, and often incoherent little rant about New York...
Bean's scenario is too inconsequential to take seriously and not outlandish enough to entertain.
Having hooked us with the tagline, director Henry Bean never seems to be sure quite where to run with it.
Even at the movie's climax, Saville wants us to keep looking at the characters
full of interesting motifs and symbolism, making a curious statement about detachment from one's surroundings, no matter how thrilling they may seem to outside observers.
An entertaining comedy with dashes of sex, all served up by a top cast
A presumably rectifiable dilemma for urbanites needs more serious treatment.
I'd hate to live in a movie world that didn't make room for weird, imperfect little movies like this.
Noise has too many warring genres on the boil and too many thoughts jockeying for supremacy.
Netflix identifies this as a comedy, but there wasn't a funny frame in the whole film. Even as a dramatic film, it's muddled, as though the director and writer didn't know what the film was about. At the end, neither do I. We're given no reason for Owen's eventual transformation or his obsession, and the motivations
October 7, 2010
Super Reviewer
CAST: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, Margarita Levieva, Gabrielle Brennan, William Baldwin, William Hurt, Maria Ballesteros DIRECTED BY: Henry Bean SUMMARY: A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it. MY THOUGHTS: "Strange, funny, & definitely
September 5, 2009
Super Reviewer
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