Review of He Was a Quiet Man (2007) by Jesse O — 03 Jan 2013

This a good film with a good script full of dark comedy and a more than solid performance from Christian Slater. This is a disturbed character and Christian does a good job at getting that across through his physical appearance and the way he acts.

Just by looking at him, you can tell that something isn't right with his head and that's all Christian Slater really. The film does have a very low-budget feel but it's never distracting to the overall quality of the film.

While the script is appropriately dark, with plenty of comedy to boot, the story never really clicked for me because you can very clearly tell where it's going and the ending while powerful, in a way, was predictable as hell.

I think the film works best as an examination of a man who is clearly disturbed and at the end of the rope. The film loses sight of that as it goes along, but by the end, even with its predictability, it gets back to that base of studying what makes a man, in this case a very disturbed one, do what he does.

Whether it be love, or just a plea for attention/help, and I think that's what is best about the film and it's something that should've been more focused on. Still this is a solid film with a really good performance from Christian Slater, but it could've been better, in my opinion.