Don't Say a Word

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Summary: I'll Never Tell
Review: what would you do if you woke up one morning and your child was gone?

There's no other word for the best suspense thriller for 2001. Finally a movie that held this reviewer attention from beginning to end

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Summary: A half-baked effort if ever I saw one.
Review: Michael Douglas has made some fantastic thrillers in his time, "Basic Instinct", "Fatal Attraction" and "Falling down" to name a few. "Don't say a word" is not one of those few.

Michael seems bored out of his mind, at some points I’m sure he's thinking "Just looked shocked and think about that fat studio paycheck". Sean Bean has played some pretty cool and effective villains ("Goldeneye" and "Patriot Games") but here he plays it more as a parody. He isn't scary or threatening for a second, and as for his gang.. Well all I can say is if I were a betting man I’d put my money on Douglas. Since when does a scary group of criminals need a comic relief character, what was up with that.. Honestly.

The one stand out performance wise is Brittany Murphy, much like Angelina Jolie did with "Tomb Raider", Brittany gives her while the rest of the cast turn up to get paid. She holds the rapidly falling apart film together as well as she can, but that is a feat beyond the means of a mere mortal.

While the supporting cast is filled with known names and faces, (Famke Janssen, Oliver Platt and Jennifer Esposito) none of them make any real impact. Famke and Jennifer fare a little better, so by my count, the guys in this film are really letting the team down.

My main problem with the film is the way that it tries to be many sorts of thrillers, in fact, each character seems to inhabit their own mini-thriller. Michael is in one (say, "Ransom"), Brittany is in another ("Mercury Rising"), as are Sean ("Home Alone".. That may be taking it a bit far), Famke ("The Bone Collector") and Jennifer (just about every thriller ever made, and since when are detectives so drop dead gorgeous).

Sure, it kills two hours and Brittany Murphy is great, hence the two star rating, but if you expect more, prepare to be bitterly disappointed. It's not enough to turn me off the usually outstanding Douglas, but if he signs on for a sequel, I won't be so forgiving.

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Summary: Dissapointing
Review: Isn't this movie suppose to be a thriller? I don't think so. Far from it. The script is very weak and predictable. Brittney Murphy gave a mild performance, and Michael Douglas was dissapointing as the script.

I was not on the edge of my seat in this movie and did I also mention the score wasn't put together well at all.

This was one of the most dissapointing films of the year.

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Summary: Bean There, Doug Less
Review: I must confess that I went to see this movie only because my favorite actor,Sean Bean,had a starring role. That being the main attraction, I was not disappointed in what he brought to the role of a bad guy who always seemed to be two or three moves ahead of "nice" guy, Michael Douglas.It was worth the price of admission just to hear Bean's ruthless,mocking voice with just enough velvet in it to make you wonder if he really was all that evil.The atmosphere of the setting,New York City,was gray and murky--almost as if the movie,made long before 9/11,had sensed the mood most of us moviegoers were feeling about that city. But despite this gloom,the tangled web of mystery involving the missing information sought by jewel thief and kidnapper Bean from psychiatrist Douglas' patient kept it interesting.There were times,however,when I felt that the development of the storyline depended too much on electronic eavesdropping equipment and cell phones.(In this information age, were we really supposed to be surprised at the technology Bean had planted in Douglas' apartment in order to see and hear what went on after he had kidnapped Douglas' daughter?) When Sean Bean and Michael Douglas finally do meet face-to face,there are enough "fireworks" to light up even the dead-of-night in that potter's field.That made me wish that there had been more such "sparklers" thoughout "Don't Say A Word".

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Summary: Pedestrian yet Creepy
Review: This is yet another suspense vehicle for Michael Douglas. Douglas is starting to look tired in this one. The plot is not all that bad but it soon gets predictable. The film somehow remains interesting just the same. Brittany Murphy turns in a good performance as the institutionalized teenager from whom psychiatrist Douglas must extract information to get his own daughter back from bad guy Sean Bean. Thus, the film acts as both a thriller and a mystery. The ending was somewhat unsuspected considering the previous settings and was pretty creepy and curiously resembled Halloween stuff. I enjoyed this film.

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Summary: Not at all what I was expecting
Review: I went into the theather expecting this to be a long, drawn out psychological thriller, but Don't Say a Word seemed more reminiscent of an action flick, and I loved it anyway.

Micheal Douglas plays a psychologist, the father of a young girl who is kidnapped. But the ransom is anything but ordinary. There's a patient in a psych ward with a 6 digit number buried in her head, and he needs to get it out.

This movie was as emotionally taxing as physically. I think it would be loved by action and drama viewers alike.

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Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: I loved this movie so much that I have seen it 5 times and I am going to see it more later on :) If you love the movie Patriot Games starring Sean Bean then you will love Don't Say A Word. I love Sean Bean he did a great job as the bad guy. the mystery and action of this movie kept you on your seat and it kept the viewer thinking through out the entire movie. The soundtrack and the setting itself from a psychiatric ward to a graveyard made it very eerie :) I recommend on seeing it

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Summary: Don't Say A Word
Review: Slick thriller, kept me awake, but no real suspense or caring for characters. Needs the Hitchcock touch.

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Summary: Michael & Sean, fantastic acting, brilliant movie magic!
Review: Michael Douglas is tailor made as the psychiatrist in the movie, Dr. Nathan Conrad. Its a part that is tailor made and makes Michael Douglas show the audience what a brilliant and versatile actor he can really be. The part is one of those that Michael can do very very well. Its a man who is haunted by his past, its a man who will do anything to get back his kidnapped child Jessica, which includes kill the character played by Sean Bean, or Patrick. Patrick has waited ten years in prison to retrieve a ruby that was hidden inside the doll of a disturbed young woman, named Eilzabeth. Sean takes the role of "Terrorist" to another level, he is brilliant, he moves fluidly thru the entire film with the grace and beauty of a martial artist, and the grace and beauty of a model or a man who is more at home with a gun than he is with the telephone that he used to get the answers from Michael's character to obtain the ruby. Its a scarey film, its brilliantly done, and its important film work by both Michael Douglas and by Sean Bean. Sean is at home with his role, its his "day job" its a role that he can do very well, its a combination of 006, Spence, and Sean Miller, which is why he makes the role so terrifying. Go and see it, and you will see to talented and well cast leads, Michael and Sean, I found a copy of the book at a town tag sale, and I do have a Yahoo Club for Sean Bean, and its one of the best movies that Sean has ever done, Go and see it today, and "Don't Say a Word!"

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Summary: Not Believable
Review: This is a Michael Douglas movie that could have been made from bits and pieces of all his other movies, except his acting in this one is poor. The leading lady acts well, but her character simply is not believable. The first half is much better than the second half, which seems to have a big gap in it. Nothing is thrilling about this "thriller." Douglas is showing his age and sags along with the plot and acting. The plot is trite.