Having hooked us with the tagline, director Henry Bean never seems to be sure quite where to run with it.
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10/18/08
Noise (2008)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:16
Rotten:18
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Noise starts with an interesting premise, but fails to build it into a cohesive whole.
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Henry Bean (“The Believer”) returns to the big screen with a complete rarity in American movies today: a comedy of ideas. David (Oscar-winner Tim Robbins) is a successful lawyer who can’t stand the... [More]
Starring: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, William Hurt, Margarita Levieva
Director: Henry Bean
Reviews for Noise
There hasn’t been such manifest smugness on screen since The Squid and the Whale.
05/07/08
everyone turns in a solid performance, despite some rather staid material they're working with.
09/20/08
Noise is meant to be a fable of personal empowerment for Everyman, but due to some wildly uneven direction and one-dimensional characters, it simply comes off as a shallow Yuppie fairy tale.
05/08/08
A presumably rectifiable dilemma for urbanites needs more serious treatment.
05/30/08
Noise has too many warring genres on the boil and too many thoughts jockeying for supremacy.
05/15/08
The screenplay has an air of unreality and doesn't hang together.
05/07/08
Of all the problems in the world today we get a movie about car alarms? Seriously?
05/08/08
The concept had potential, but the movie's broad approach (including a ridiculous turn by William Hurt as a mayor with a laughable dye job) drowns out its message.
05/08/08
Amusing but marginal.
09/25/08
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10/01/08
Bean’s scenario is too inconsequential to take seriously and not outlandish enough to entertain.
10/18/08
The moral of this failed fable might best be summed up as, "Dude, get some earplugs."
05/10/08
[Director] Bean writes interesting scripts that toy with big ideas, but the films that result aren't always good. (Or even bearable.) Here he sets out to make an aural Fight Club, but instead he's made a movie about a guy who really needs to buy earplugs.
05/08/08
It's wickedly amusing for a little bit, but ultimately the film becomes what it's fighting: just noise.
05/15/08
A much better strategy for alarm activist Bean would have been to give Robbins a microphone and make this as a trenchant documentary.
05/06/08
Noise, the second part of a projected 'fanatic trilogy', is shallow and loud.
05/09/08
Top CriticLike the car alarms it demonizes, Noise is insistent and initially attention-grabbing -- but eventually a little one-note and empty.
05/09/08
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?
10/18/08
Top CriticAmid 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.
10/18/08
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