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Reviews Counted:140
Fresh:124
Rotten:16
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: Thoughtful and wonderfully acted, The Quiet American manages to capture the spirit of Green's novel.
Like Sunset Boulevard, [this film] starts with a lifeless body, then puts the murder in perspective. It’s a good cinematic structure, one perfect for a film that cares less about the crime than the journey toward it.
"The Quiet American" begins in Saigon in 1952. That's its first sign of trouble.
... journey into one particular heart of darkness, an organ that nevertheless pumps warm blood.
Eliminates the last traces of Greene's religious motifs and focuses entirely on political and interpersonal themes. Yet these are at the heart of Greene's story, so as an adaptation it succeeds where End of the Affair failed.
It’s a political film, but not in the way that an Oliver Stone film is political. Rather, it’s political in the way that Casablanca is a movie about politics (it’s romantic and entertaining and tells a story about interesting people).
Noyce and the screenwriters have nailed Greene with the kind of accuracy not seen since Carol Reed's two Greene films, The Third Man and Our Man in Havana.
It's Caine who deserves the Best Actor trophy, delivering not only the finest male performance of 2002 but also one of the best of his entire career.
Noyce's direction is glum and sententious.
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Its mysteries are transparently obvious, and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller. [But it's] worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser.
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The Quiet American is a most disturbing film -- but disturbing in a good way.
Director Phillip Noyce engineers an ideal pace and mood along with the first-rate performances.
An Iliad of the heart.
There's something not entirely convincing about The Quiet American. And that holds true for both the movie and the title character played by Brendan Fraser.
Caine gives a gravely dynamic performance... but it's a role well within his usual range.
The Quiet American plainly underlines its characters' melodrama and willful blindness to stage a potent allegory.
Noyce's film is contemplative and mournfully reflective.
Caine does subtle and craftsmanlike work in this absorbing and understated film by director Phillip Noyce.
Strident and inelegant in its 'message-movie' posturing.
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Philip Noyce Learning The Art of Making Money 
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