| The Quiet American Review |
| by Louis Proyect |
| I am sure that most people are familiar with the controversy surrounding
"The Quiet American", a 2001 Phillip Noyce film based on the 1955 Graham
Greene novel. Originally intended for release in November 2001, Miramax
executives delayed the film for...more |
| The Quiet American Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4) |
| THE QUIET AMERICAN, based on a Graham Greene novel, appears at first to be a
mystery and a thriller but quickly turns into an anti-American mood piece. Its
mysteries are transparently obvious, and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller. more |
| The Quiet American Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 8/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "The Quiet American" (Miramax Films)
Credit actor Michael Caine, director Phillip Noyce and screenwriters
Christopher Hampton & Robert Schenkkan with this compelling adaptation of Graham
Greene's 1955 novel about...more |
| The Quiet American Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: A+) |
| 'I should have realized saving a woman and saving a country would be the
same thing to a man like Pyle,' reflects British journalist Thomas Fowler
(Michael Caine) as he regards his former friend's body laid out in a
Saigon morgue. That woman is Phuong...more |
| The Quiet American Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 7/10) |
| Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American is a good film with a solid pedigree both
in front of and, more specifically, behind the camera. It's important to
start this review off with that sentence, especially when you take into
account the most recent efforts...more |
| The Quiet American Review |
| by Karina Montgomery (Rating: 4.5/5) |
| The Quiet American is a story that, if it isn't true, certainly feels
so. It's about love, rescue, Vietnam, detachment, projecting
agendas, and becoming involved: all of these and none of these. On
one level, you have a narratively simple and...more |
| The Quiet American Review |
| by Jonathan F. Richards |
| In 1952, more than a decade before Viet Nam penetrated the radar screen of
the American consciousness, Graham Greene sat in Saigon and began writing a
prescient novel that sketched the beginnings of what would become our tragic
adventure in...more |
| The Quiet American Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| # stars based on 4 stars: 3.5
Reviewed by: Harvey Karten
Miramax Films/Intermedia Films
Directed by: Philip Noyce
Written by: Christopher Hampton, Robert Schenkkan
Cast: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Hai Yen, Rade
Serbedzija
Screened at: Review 1,...more |
| The Quiet American Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 8/10) |
| CAPSULE: Michael Caine gives one of his best
performances as Thomas Fowler, a worldly English
journalist, and his relationship to a naive
American who has strong ideas how to shape
Vietnam. Graham Greene wrote the novel set in...more |
