If Noise takes a certain New York path and tries to gently negotiate rather than smash things, Robbins and Hurt at least manage to keep it real.
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05/09/08
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
Noise, the second part of a projected 'fanatic trilogy', is shallow and loud.
05/09/08
Top CriticNoise 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
Noise is never quite as smart as it tries to be. But as summer and its mouth-breathing blockbusters loom large on the horizon, there's something touching about a movie that even tries.
05/08/08
[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
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
In this freakout indie satire, Robbins goes unusually insane and ready to rumble as a nervous wreck NYC lawyer so disoriented by loud street sounds, that sleep and sex are becoming a thing of the past. Egghead superheroes can also come in small packages.
05/08/08
The screenplay has an air of unreality and doesn't hang together.
05/07/08
As a follow-up to his striking 2002 directorial debut, The Believer, this second obsessive study in fanaticism by writer-director Henry Bean has its own delirious integrity and outsider-art charm.
05/07/08
There hasn’t been such manifest smugness on screen since The Squid and the Whale.
05/07/08
Watch it to see Tim Robbins shake his booty to the beat while bashing a car to bits with his baseball bat.
05/07/08
Noise is a funny movie about a serious issue, delivered tongue in cheek but with real conviction.
05/07/08
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
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