Overview
A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?
While the movie stumbled a bit down the home stretch I think that it was an excellent way to ask a unique question: what if we were nicer to people that are really struggling in life? The method in which the question is stage is fantastic – take a man who is about to a villain and make him into a hero. We get to see both sides of the man – the part where he is downtrodden and then when he is praised. The acting is also fantastic – I forgot how much I miss Christian Slater.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews He Was a Quiet Man
Movie title: He Was a Quiet Man
Movie description: A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?
Date published: 2022-07-03
Director(s): Frank A. Cappello
Actor(s): Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H. Macy, Sascha Knopf, John Gulager, Jamison Jones, Michael DeLuise, K.C. Ramsey, Anzu Lawson, David Wells, Sewell Whitney, Randolph Mantooth, Frankie Thorn, Tina D'Marco, Livia Treviño, Lisa Arianna, Greg Baker, Paul D. Roberts, Maggie Wagner, Brian Lohmann
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
My Review
While the movie stumbled a bit down the home stretch I think that it was an excellent way to ask a unique question: what if we were nicer to people that are really struggling in life? The method in which the question is stage is fantastic – take a man who is about to a villain and make him into a hero. We get to see both sides of the man – the part where he is downtrodden and then when he is praised. The acting is also fantastic – I forgot how much I miss Christian Slater.
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My Review - 7.5/10
7.5/10