With the right audience He Was a Quiet Man might well play as black comedy. But Slater, disappearing into his role, brings a note of earnest desperation to his performance that's hard to laugh at, and hard to look away from.
He Was a Quiet Man
He seemed like such a nice guy.. He pretty much kept to himself...
2007 · 1h 35m · Not Rated
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Frank A. Cappello
Overview
An unhinged office worker who planned to go on a shooting spree at his workplace struggles with his newfound status as a hero after he ends up stopping a shooting spree instead.
Director and cast
- Frank A. Cappello Director
- Christian Slater as Bob Maconel
- John Gulager as Goldie / Maurice Gregory
- Elisha Cuthbert as Venessa Parks
- Jamison Jones as Scott Harper
- Michael DeLuise as Detective Soreson
- K.C. Ramsey as Jackson
- Anzu Lawson as Nancy Felt
- Sascha Knopf as Paula Metzler
- David Wells as Ralf Coleman
- Sewell Whitney as Derrick Miles
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Slater does well to soften the lines of his no-hoper caricature, but writer-director Cappello steers his film to nowhere particularly memorable.
Imagine Marty if Marty had turned out to be the Unabomber and you'll have the gist of writer-director Frank Cappello's oddly compelling, pitch-black comedy.
He's [Christian Slater] still a capable actor, but seems to be having as much trouble finding good scripts as his Heathers co-star Winona Ryder.
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