Sound of Noise
Sound of Noise
R | 09 March 2012 (USA)
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A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

Reviews
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Pedro Ferreira A brilliant comedian/drama. A great movie for those who likes music, i mean, good music :P. Since the first frame to the last one the persons gets (infected) by the sound of the "noise", by the striking rhythms and the fascinating harmonies created along the "play". The mystery behind each character helps in infection created by the noise. All plays different from each other surprising us with what you can create with the power of the imagination and the talent raised in the back of our minds. Certainly a good movie with a good story, and a great soundtrack. I would strongly recommend to see, and hearing the music present in there.
Ali Muhammad (aliaosjah) Anyone who is fed up of the usual stories, this is the movie to see. Having said that, besides the unique story, the movie itself is simply superb.Acting by each of the characters is top notch. The story makes you wanting for something new and thrilling after each act. The acting of Sanna, even though it is not like of the usual actors but its still commendable. The supporting cast, unlike the usual movies have given an almost equal and significant screen time.Its a very funny movie. I burst into laughters on many occasions. I enjoyed the story so much that I watched it again with my brother.This is the movie which shouldn't be missed by anyone who truly seeks entertainment in motion pictures.
Matthew Stechel Sound of Noise actually manages the very rare feat of laying out a unique spin on the detective/police procedural format. Oh the elements are there, there's a cop, there's a band of "terrorists" who are always two steps ahead, there's a personal connection between the acts of the terrorists and the detective's home life, there's a very neat cat and mouse game between the detective and the leader of the terrorists (who happens to be a blond woman) but of course the fact that the band of terrorists are all frustrated musicians and that the act of terror they're spreading is musical based (they get together at various locations and "play" any object that's around--staging these very performance art like set pieces in areas and pretty much annoying the heck out of everyone who happens to be around) This movie is definitely far more original then any other cop movie is these days. (well any that i can think of as of the time i'm writing this at least) Of course none of that originality wouldn't mean anything if the pacing of the movie weren't tight, or if the lead character's personal life weren't also interesting, or if the suspense of what the detective is actually going to do once he captures this band of terrorists (or even if he wants to capture them given his personal background) I have to give a lot of credit to this movie for being pretty original in that even with a well worn format i still had little idea where the movie was ultimately going to go--and if the last ten or twenty minutes don't exactly play out the way you'd like them to--that's pretty OK because quite honestly i'm not sure i could've come up with a better ending either. (and really the more i think about it the more i quite like the ending--it very much matches the tone and events of what came before and what we've come to know about the 2 leading characters throughout the movie) Will this movie hold up on repeat viewing? i'd like to think so--even if the frustrated musical terrorists ultimately become annoying---i really really really quite enjoyed the detective's back story and how his back story plays into his need to capture this band of terrorists. Its actually kind of a cute love story in a way, a bizarre one, but definitely a cute one. About that background of the cop tho---when you read the following sentence--you're reaction to it should indicate whether you'd be charmed or annoyed by this film. The lead detective happens to not especially care for music because he comes from a family of well known music lovers--his brother is a conductor for the local symphony while he himself is rather tone deaf and clueless about what makes good music--so of course it should fall to him to stop this musical band of terrorists from spreading their own brand of "music" around town. I'm telling you right now--if that bit of whimsy makes you wanna hit your computer screen then this movie is definitely not for you--but then again what are you doing looking at these user comments here in the first place if not to check this one out a little bit???
billcr12 How about four anarchist drummers performing street music illegally without permits from the proper authorities. The first event takes place in a hospital operating room where an obese man is awaiting surgery and whose body is used as a percussive device. A bank is next up for these oddball artists. They don't rob it, but instead shred the money, utilizing the sound of the machines for effect.The third movement, as it were, has the four with giant bulldozers in front of an opera house using the shovel portion thumping up and down on the asphalt of the parking lot as a rhythmic tune.The final act is an ingenuous undertaking where the musicians are suspended from electrical power transmission lines using metal objects as bows mimicking the sound of a gigantic violin. Art of Noise is a very quirky comedy which I found to be funny and inventive at the same time.