He Was a Quiet Man

And very nerdy too. Do not be fooled by the critic that compared this to Amelie (Steal it), The Fight Club (Buy it) and Brazil (Buy it). If this is like the child of these three others, it certainly feels like the unwanted vicious child. He Was a Quiet Man is stranger than Stranger Than Fiction (Rent it) and somewhat more twisted than Crash (The 1990's movie about prosthetic limbs fetish - Avoid it) (Not to be confused with 2005 Crash - Buy it or Steal it).

Christian Slater comes out of has-been hell in an unredeeming manner, just to barely show his face and most probably go back in. Convincingly nerdish and quiet, he reminds us perhaps of why we haven't heard from him in so long. Elisha Cutberth is under-used as her hotness doesn't go exploited (at least that could have worked) and William H. Macy is on this unending cycle of irrelevant roles after being brilliant in Fargo (Rent it).

I've got to draw the line here, the point of this blog is that I watch many movies so you don't have to, so unless you're watching over 150 movies a year, i think you'll find better things to do for 2 hours than watching this movie. It is not totally despisable, and in the end it does have an interesting twist, so avoid it, but NOT at all cost.