The Silent Partner
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Movie Reviews of The Silent Partner
Movie Review: Don't Go Out Half Hitchcocked
Summary: 5 Stars
This film has improved with age. Curtis Hanson crafted a script that Sir Alfred Hitchcock would have proudly filmed. It features the classic bond that the Master of Suspense's heroes and villians often forged and has one of the best, surprising and logical surprise twist endings in modern movie history. Superb performances abound, particularly Elliot Gould and a chilling, ice cold Christopher Plummer.Movie Review: Censored edition and in Full Screen !
Summary: 5 Stars
This fantastic thriller deserves to be seen uncut, the full running time is 106 mins and why oh why are we only getting a full screen edition. This is a much loved cult gem which I'm ecstatic is being released on disc. Perhaps this is the only version of the film which could be found, if anyone knows more about this edition please let us know.
5/5 for the film 3/5 for the proposed DVD.
Movie Review: BJ
Summary: 5 Stars
Very interesting movie I enjoyed it very much.
Has a twist with the bad guy forcing the good
guy to work with him.
Movie Review: A Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of those great films that no one has ever heard of... It is about the perfect crime and it darn near is...Movie Review: "Think of a number...."
Summary: 4 Stars
This odd little movie -- about a bank manager who figures out a way to profit from a robbery -- kept surprising me.
I rented it after reading a capsule review and as early as the opening credits was startled to see that it has a score by jazz pro Oscar Peterson, and it's based on a script by Curtis Hanson, who would later adapt "L.A. Confidential."
It's obvious Hanson had the chops early on because "The Silent Partner" is an extremely well done, satisfyingly complex little thriller that was years ahead of its time. It has its share of jolting shifts in tone and approach, and its low-budget Canadian roots are pretty blatant, but that works to the advantage of the film; it makes viewers underestimate the movie in much the same way that characters underestimate the protagonist.
Elliott Gould's awkward bank manager figures out that his branch is about to be held up so he stashes $48,000 beforehand for himself. The psychotic robber, played by Christopher Plummer (with a cold, preening style that reminded me of Kevin Spacey back when Kevin Spacey was Kevin Spacey), realizes he's been shafted and comes after the money. In a big way.
It's kind of disconcerting to see Gould, in the years not long after "California Split" and "The Long Goodbye," play such an unapologetic, low-key dork -- unimpressing women with his love of tropical fish and propping chairs against his front door -- but the story basically requires it.
Plummer is great as the made-up, bad jewelry-wearing villain whose extreme methods almost (*almost*) take the movie places it shouldn't go. And Celine Lomez, who plays one of Gould's two love interests, is so smoking hot I almost couldn't believe it; she's also a solid enough actor to put across her character's complicated loyalties.
With its mix of nerdiness and unexpected complexity, "The Silent Partner" reminds me of some flawed-but-likeable, lesser-known films written by John Patrick Shanley ("The January Man" specifically) and William Goldman ("No Way to Treat a Lady") but it succeeds where those movies eventually break down: in the plotting.
I'm not sure why the DVD's distributors felt they had to market this as a "Reservoir Dogs"-type movie (the cover art depicts armed, black-suited robbers who never actually appear in the film trodding across an American $100 Benjamin, despite that all the currency shown in the film in Canadian), but "The Silent Partner" does share "Dogs"'s infectious love of cinema and its startling, twisty, relentless intelligence.