Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Paul Magne Haakonsen I can't claim to have had any high hopes or expectations for this movie, but the synopsis seemed somewhat interesting, so I gave it a chance. And doing that was a win on my part, because this movie was entertaining and so well-told by director Frank A. Cappello.The story is about Bob Maconel who is planning a shooting at his dead end job, being tired of being a nobody, a joke, an outcast and a faceless being in the crowd. As he is mustering up the courage to initiate his plan, someone beats him to it, and the day takes on a very different turn for Bob.This is without a doubt the best performance from Christian Slater that I have ever seen. He nailed this role and character right on the head, and he really carried the movie quite well. Alongside him was Elisha Cuthbert whom also put on a great performance.There isn't a dull moment throughout this movie and I was more than entertained throughout the course of "He Was a Quiet Man". And this movie is well-worth sitting down to watch. There is a great continuous flow to the story and you really get sucked into the storyline right from the very beginning, because of the acting performances and the great directorial work.

Bento de Espinosa This movie is a wonderful example of those movies that start very well, promising, then after 10 minutes start to go nowhere and at the end are completely pointless. This "comedy" is not in the least funny. At the beginning, Mr. Slater does a fine job portraying the dull worker, really very convincing, but then his character becomes very repetitive, all the time showing the same facial expression, which makes you start to hate him. BTW, there is not a single character to sympathize with. The movie keeps making you believe the dull worker would finally take revenge for being constantly pushed around, but he never does it. On the contrary: the ending made me hate myself that I didn't stop watching this garbage in the middle (when I was fighting to stay awake). So what's the point? If everybody disdains and hates you, treats you like a cockroach, pushes you around, then you payback by killing yourself, so that they get the confirmation that they were right about you being a waste of space?

tieman64 "He Was a Quiet Man" is a poor attempt at black comedy from director Frank Cappello. The film stars Christian Slater as a white-collar worker who fantasises about murdering his boss and co-workers.Whilst "Man" contains a relatively clever narrative structure, and two good, darkly comedic moments (one in which a paralysed woman sings at a karaoke bar, another in which Slater's murder spree is interrupted by another co-worker's murder spree), the film is ultimately amateurishly directed, thin and poorly written.5/10 – Worth one viewing. See "The Assassionation of Richard Nixon", Fassbiner's "The Third Generation", "Taxi Driver", Lindsay Anderson's "If" and "Office Space" instead.

deltajvliet Christian Slater gives an outstanding, career defining performance in this great little movie. He's Bob, a mix of Milton in Office Space and Michael Douglas in Falling Down, a psychopathic loner who brings a gun to work but can't quite get up the nerve to gun down all the people he hates. In a nice little instance of dark comedy, a fellow psychopathic loner at work also brings a gun to work and begins killing people. At first Bob's somewhat pleased that someone did the dirty work for him, but when his coworker points the gun at a female colleague Bob has hidden affection for, he uses his own gun on the killer, thereby becoming a hero. Nobody ever questions why Bob had a gun in the first place, but after reading some interpretations of the movie, I understood why. Yeah, this is one of those movies you interpret. It's thoughtful and provocative and not at all times literal, but for the most part it's easy enough to follow. For an independent movie He Was a Quiet Man had quite a few moments of CGI, but it's a great example of when such a film-making tool is warranted. We're not talking Transformers or anything, it's the little things... Like when Bob talks to his fish, and we see it talk back. That was a nice little touch - the fish mirrors Bob's wants and desires and subconscious, and by doing that we're given further insight into Bob's clearly demented but fascinating mind, as well as one critical moment of foreshadowing. The supporting cast includes Elisha Cuthbert and the always reliable William H. Macy. Still, this is Slater's show. I've always liked the guy, but he's never really struck me as a serious actor. I'll have to take him more seriously from now on. 8/10