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Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) is about to have a bad day. Another eight hours of sitting in a dull grey cubicle, ignored by his co-workers, existing in a world where he feels completely out of sync. ...( read more 
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MCT:October 6, 2008He Was a Quiet Man draws on one of the most morbid aspects of our society and describes it perfectly.
It leads us down a path of insanity and through the surreal, morbid, and sickened world of Slater's character almost flawlessly; and delivers a thought provoking, eye opening take on the mind of a psychotic would be murderer.
Great performance by Christian Slater with the assist of William H. Macy and Elisha Cuthbert. I quite enjoyed it although some scenes were a bit boring and dull and it forced me to close my eyes but alas, when Elisha's character flaunted her assets, I was immediately drawn back to the film. Watch it. -
MCT:October 2, 2008Though i never liked Christian Slater but i shud say he did an awesome acting in this one. Should be taken seriously from now on. Overall the movie is truly remarkable ... I would recommend other movie lovers to go check it out, atleast once. Oh yes one more thing ... Elisha is just plain gorgeous
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MCT:August 18, 2008
Plot: Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) is about to have a bad day. Another eight hours of sitting in a dull grey cubicle, ignored by his co-workers, existing in a world where he feels completely out of sync. ...( read more )On this particular bad day Bob crosses the line from potential killer to inadvertent hero and in the process saves Venessa's (Elisha Cuthbert) life. This invisible nobody saves the object of his desire only to have her ask him to end her life.
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MCT:August 17, 2008
playing against type Christian Slater is really quite good in this filck about the usual Milton style office drone who says little and then eventually goes postal.
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MCT:August 16, 2008
Really cool... almost seemed like a Terry Gilliam movie, with it's otherworldliness. Took me by surprise.
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MCT:August 13, 2008Probably Christian Slater in his best role ever. He was a quiet man is really close to a masterpiece.
You can really feel how involved you get into his and Cuthbert's characters lives as they connect wonderfully on screen and gives you a fantastic experience.
It's a must see! -
MCT:August 11, 2008
Wants to be Falling Down + Donnie Darko + Office Space + The Fisher King + Fight Club + Brazil; fails but is still unusually good. And it has talking goldfish. NB Don't bother watching it just for Elisha Cuthbert's norks - she used a baps-double.
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MCT:August 9, 2008
Good soundtrack and unbelievable performance by Slater, surely his best role after True Love. Some great scenes and good lines too, but the ending was quite confusing and just denies all the movie development.
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MCT:July 27, 2008
Very funny dark comedy about a man who want's to go posatl on his office and then someone else beats him to the punch and he becomes a reluctant hero. Christian Slater give a wonderful performance.
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MCT:July 25, 2008Just when I thought Slater was done for, he lands this gem of a role as a disgruntled progressively insane office worker. I don't know if its makeup that makes actors find their strength and let loose, but he did an amazing job in this movie.
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MCT:July 19, 2008
Had some "pacing issues" and the effects were awful (and unnecessary), but besides that, great stuff.
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MCT:July 18, 2008
I really wish I didn't wait till the morning after to write a review of this movie because I will have inevitably forgotten a lot of the intricacies of the film. But alas, what I can remember is pure genius. This movie is based on a guy who is plotting his suicide while taking out a couple of his office co-workers in the progress, but instead when he finally gets the balls to do it, one of his co-workers decides to do it first and then Christian Slater's character guns down the psychopath and "saves the day" so to speak.
So that is the beginning, but what eventually unfolds is a life of happiness that evolves from his previous despair and gets him to question his new found success, and how was it achieved. The whole story is a powerful look at depression and alienation and hypocrisy.
Christian Slater I must say is absolutely fantastic in this film and it is my favourite performance of his since True Romance. That is to say I never thought that Elisha Cuthbert was that great an actress but she has definitely shown that she has looks and skill expertly portraying the beautiful assistant.
Then continuing on that point is the script, expertly woven to create a perfect tragedy, and one with an inevitable outcome but no visible tangent to it. The character development of William H. Macy's and Elisha Cuthbert's characters was wonderful, and Christian Slater's character was definitely relateable for anyone who has ever had depressing thoughts or hated people to a large degree.
All in all I loved this movie, and I hope everyone sees it, because this one (like You Kill Me) is one of those fantastic indie films that just shoots under the radar, but those who see it see its brilliance. -
MCT:July 15, 2008There are great movies to make about the stress of the workplace and/or school. The feeling of loneliness and worthlessness that drives people legitimately nuts. This isn't a new concept, and it has been done - but we haven't really seen anything that does it perfectly and really gets into the heads of these people. "He Was a Quiet Man" was as far off as you can possibly get. It's a film that doesn't understand anything other than talking goldfish saying "the bitch lied", and completely mistreats it's tragic characters. It doesn't get it... or anything, for that matter. I felt like the filmmaker has never been depressed a day in his life.
"He Was a Quiet Man" centers around Bob Maconel (Christian Slater), an office worker that is attempting to grasp his last bit of sanity after endlessly looking at numbers all day. As we're introduced to him, we see that he has taken a gun to work and is planning on shooting his coworkers. However, before he gets a chance to, another man pulls out a gun and begins killing people. Bob ends up inadvertently saving Vanessa Parks' (Elisha Cuthbert) life by killing the murderer. Now considered a town hero, Bob is upgraded to a spacious office at work and is noticed for the first time by his coworkers and neighbors. Things get complicated when Vanessa, paralyzed from the neck down, asks for Bob to finish her off. What really happens is that Vanessa, a young lively girl now confined in a wheelchair, teaches Bob to loosen up and enjoy life a little bit.
The acting in this movie is laughable. Christian Slater, who is usually quite solid, comes off as a complete caricature. Again, he seems to be a person that doesn't get depression at all. Can't a film portray these people as fairly normal people, not completely socially inept and borderline retarded? Elisha Cuthbert, who is usually passable, is a complete mess. It's fairly common to take away some of an actor's tools and rely on their abilities to carry the role... but, here, some genius decided Elisha Cuthbert would be a good idea for the role. God bless her and all, but what a horrible decision that was. And boy, I felt sorry for William H. Macy to be involved with this. Actually, come to think about it, he'd be far more convincing as Bob anyway.
Even more hilariously bad is the CGI. I understand this film didn't exactly have a huge budget, but in that case you shouldn't be relying on CGI so often. I felt legitimately embarrassed by watching cartoonish fish delivering one-liners. Speaking of awful, how about the two executives at the company? Lets see - two young good looking guys, chomping on their gum, making fun of the office dork. Is this junior high? Nobody acts like that. Everyone in this movie is a caricature. It gets literally everything wrong.
I can't say everything was going in a completely wrong direction. There were some potentially good scenes now and then. For instance, I thought the karaoke scene was kind of cute and charming in a way... until, of course, it ends in a poop joke. High brow entertainment, right there. It's supposed to be the big emotional moment when Bob comes out of his shell - and it's interrupted by poop. Also, there's a scene later on where Bob finds a picture (which leads nowhere, by the way), and then in another big emotional scene, a goldfish delivers a oneliner. Hilarious, right? Swearing goldfish, get it?
I saw the ending of the film coming from a mile away... but I figured there's no way it'd be that stupid. It would negate just about everything else this movie has done. But, of course, it did. A million loopholes can be found immediately, not to mention all the things that lead nowhere (the big red button of DOOM~!). Heaven forbid a movie not end with a twist. "Lars and the Real Girl" was about a guy loosening up thanks to a "girl" in a wheelchair and that worked out perfectly. No twist. No anything. Get the hint.
The only thing more inept than Christian Slater's character are the minds behind this film. While trying to deliver a message that people could be saved if given proper attention, it completely exploits it's characters and make them complete social outcasts. This was just awful, and served only to waste people's time. -
MCT:July 5, 2008This was an interesting movie, I guess. I'm not quite sure what to say about it except that I HATED the ending. I understand why it ended the way it did, but it still pisses me off.
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MCT:July 2, 2008
Nice movie,a little typical but still good!
Christian Slater is very very good in this movie,much better than many other movies he was in!plus he was one with his character as any good actor should be!
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MCT:June 28, 2008
Bob Maconel is an interesting character support by unique plot that he accidentally become a hero. Slater is playing so great.
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MCT:June 24, 2008
Um homem que quer matar todos os colegas de trabalho, quem não quer fazer isso? Um bom filme, uma boa história, meio previsível em algumas cenas, mas é recomendável.
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MCT:June 15, 2008
He Was A Quiet Man leads the viewer into the mind of a psychotic individual and has a twist of an ending. Slater is brilliant as is his norm. Macy does not have a large role and with that I was disappointed. Cuthbert was very good and convincing. Well acted, well scripted and though not a must see film, it is intriguing.
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MCT:June 12, 2008
Um filme a não perder com um Christian Slater mais maduro na pele de um "colega de trabalho" como tantos outros que não suportam a pressão e que fantasiam com o homícido dos colegas de trabalho. Um filme para saborear após a sua conclusão e começar a atar as pontas soltas. Para ser visto com companhia para se poder comentar. Rico em pormenores.
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MCT:June 7, 2008
Supply manager Bob Maconel goes to work each day, prepping himself for the moment he'll work up the courage to take the revolver he has stashed in a locked desk drawer and kill his office mates. The problem is, just as he's about to carry out his plan, he's beaten to the punch by another disgruntled coworker who goes on a shooting spree of his own. When Bob sees the gunman turn to finish off Venessa (Elisha Cuthbert), a pretty young woman on whom he has a crush, Bob shoots the man dead, saving her life. Hailed as a hero, Bob finds himself the center of attention of local media, coworkers, and the company's CEO, Mr. Shelby (William H. Macy), who gives him a big promotion. The only person who isn't happy, it turns out, is the woman he saved, the woman he loves. Paralyzed from a bullet to the spine, Venessa's furious that Bob didn't let her die, and she asks him to help her finish the job the gunman started. Christian Slater (Bobby), who gives an amazing performance as the mentally unstable Bob Maconel. Gone is the young-Nicholson grin, replaced by crooked teeth, thinning hair, and oversized glasses. He does the difficult job of not only bringing the character to life, but making him sympathetic. Elisha Cuthbert, shedding her teen dream persona, does a decent job as the volatile Venessa. There are times she struggles with the emotional weight of the role, and she never really manages to be credible as a claw-her-way-to-the-top executive, but given the physical demands put on her, she spends most of the film unable to move from the neck down, it's a performance that shows she can do more than run away from kidnappers and cougars. "Quiet Man" is more intriguing as a document of a rotted mind, and thankfully Cappello hugs tight to this exploration. The film runs out of ideas toward the end, but it slows down the movie instead of stopping it in its tracks.
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MCT:June 6, 2008
Captivating study of the 'little man' with a restrained performance from Slater and gutsy support from Cuthbert. Some of the surreal touches are a bit obvious and literal and the ending is a bit of a cop out but it should be praised for trying something different.
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MCT:June 3, 2008
a interesting role for slater as a unhappy enployee, on verge of going postal and killing his co workers, is beaten to it by another, and turns uot becoming a hero, by killing the guy, an falls for a worker, paralised from attack, while getting the atention and work credit he finaly deserves, but is this life ment to happen, slater goes old and balding in his role, but is still slater reconisable, but interesting take on office politics, and the stress some people have, watching it you realise, hes inocent man caught up in a new lease of life, as things could have turned so much worse for him, fine support to from william h macy, a nice direction, and nice pace
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MCT:May 31, 2008
Never heard of this movie before seeing it at the rental place. Actors were pretty solid. Still, was expecting a little bit more of the film after the end.
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MCT:May 25, 2008
Christian Slater Rocks...
The movie is so much different from the usual flicks. This is the second movie staring Slater which had almose gone unnoticed under the big names.
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