Taraparain
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Teddie Blake
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
zacknabo
Tell No One is based on Harlan Coben's international best-selling thriller--that's all you need to know. If you are into that, cool. Or maybe you just want to shut the mind off and watch some easy entertainment...cool. It may even be fair to say Tell No One is slightly more sophisticated in its execution-story wise and directorially--than some other movies of its ilk. Though there is the unchangeable fact that It is high anxiety, cliché riddled, mainstream schlock. Though the film does contain Jeff Buckley's rendition of "Lilac Wine," so there is that.
Paul Nevai
It took me 2 viewings plus careful reading about the movie in Wikipedia until I fully understood the story but in the end it was well worth my time. Not the best ever crime movie but it is a solid one. The plot is tight albeit highly unlikely and kinda artificial.I didn't realize it was a French movie until I saw the chain-smoking pediatrician. Just kiddin'.
areatw
'Tell No One' is a fine example of exactly how a mystery thriller should be done. This is a very well-written and acted film with a compelling and intelligent story. It does a particularly good job and building and maintaining tension, moving at a steady pace and with the plot developments timed for maximum effect.Despite the relatively long running length for a thriller, 'Tell No One' never goes through any dull patches. There are plenty of twists and, like with other strong thrillers, the film goes in a totally different direction to what anybody would have expected. Any flaws are minor and have no impact on the storyline. All in all, 'Tell No One' is a very well-made, compelling mystery thriller.
Andy Goss
Visually this film is a delight, the set pieces are marvellously realistic, and the cinematography manages to be both unobtrusive and impressive. The editing is tight, or as tight as the script will allow, and every opportunity has been taken to lend visual interest and substance to scenes that would otherwise be bland. The actors work hard to inject life into underdeveloped characters, but they are given little opportunity by the script to rise above the formulaic. Tight editing and fluid direction keep the ball rolling although we are as much in the dark as to what is going on as is Beck, the paediatrician hero. Eight years ago Beck survived an attack in which his wife was killed, or so he thought, but now he is receiving emails from her, and other peculiar things are happening. He, and we, would like to know what is going on. We do find out, in the end. But it is as if the writers were so carried away writing action that they forgot that there has to be a story, and that the story has to have a back-story, there has to be a scenario under which all this frenetic and random seeming activity can be seen as serving some dramatic and structural purpose. So they tacked on a lengthy, tedious, and confusing sequence of intercut scenes in which All Is Revealed. Now we know Who, and How, but Why is never convincingly conveyed. Beck is well portrayed by François Cluzet, and Kristin Scott Thomas gives the secondary character of his lawyer the kind of dimensionality that a lead role would warrant. Most of the characters are not really that interesting, and the only one who is becomes collateral damage, to no great dramatic purpose, as an obvious plot mechanism. For this viewer, at least, the film began to go downhill from this point, I no longer cared all that much about the outcome. I made two guesses as to what lay behind the mystery, both wrong. What emerges is in the event, not trivial, but banal. There are holes in the plot, but those I can work with. What in the end I came away with was a sense of hollowness, of waste. The film left me depressed, and I had bad dreams that night. A lot of people will like this film. There is a lot to admire about that way it was made. I just wish they had used a better, properly developed script.
