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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: ANCHOR BAY
Salesrank: 26511
Released: January 15, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) endures another eight hours in a dull grey cubicle. Ignored by his co-workers, Bob feels completely invisible and out of sync with the world. On one strange day he crosses the line from potential killer to inadvertent hero when he saves beautiful Venessa (Elisha Cuthbert). His Boss (William H. Macy) transforms Bob into a new man but his good fortune is short lived when the Object of his Desire asks him to end her life.
He Was a Quiet Man Reviews:
A quiet man 
2009-11-12 - This movie grabbed me! Very thought provoking movie- all about that person in the office or neighborhood that no one really takes time to know. All they can say about him in hind sight is "he was a quiet man..." All actors were perfect for their roles, and gave wonderful performances.
Very interesting movie 
2009-04-12 - In societies where the main values are power,money,status,and where you have to be the best, shy citizens looking for a normal life are starting to feel out of place - When a society pushes their normal citizens to the limit, paranoid behaviours would be common. This is what happen to the main character (Christian Slater) in this movie.
The movie in my opinion is a satire of the contemporary US society with Christian Slater brilliant as usual.In certain way I think Billy Wilder in his movie The apartment with Jack Lemmon started to denounce the beginning of this kind of social problems.
SCARY AND ALL TOO REAL! 
2008-10-25 - Christian Slater gives a chilling performance in this small, but effective film. Slater plays a weak alienated man who is constantly ridiculed and bullied at work and through his daily life. We all know that there are people in this world like this, but watching this film, makes one think twice about dumping on the "quiet man". This is a well made film with more than a few surprises.
Much ado about nothing and (a) nobody - or 'postals' are people too 
2008-10-19 - Spending almost 2 hours watching this movie last night felt like a MAJOR waste of my time.
The plot is like this: Christian Slater is an office worker and he hates his job. He's flirting with the idea of mass-murdering his fellow office workers and there's one fish in his fish tank at home that's encouraging him to go on that path. Then, someone actually does it - shoots a few people before Christian shoots him and saves a pretty woman who doesn't die but she turns out paraplegic. He ends up a vice-president, gets the paraplegic girl who may recover some day but then, it turns out, it was he who shot everyone and it was all a fantasy of some sort.
That's IT.
Why was this movie made? Who or what is the targeted audience? Is there a message there, somewhere? Questions... questions...
Did the director, the producer, the script writer, the actors felt they were part of something important while at it? I have a tentative answer to this one: probably not.
If you feel like buying or renting a movie or even watching something on Showtime... look elsewhere or, chances are, you will be disappointed.
I did not like this film. 
2008-10-02 - A man, played by Christian Slater, takes his gun to work every day. He is a disgruntled employee and simply cannot muster the strength, thankfully, to actually pull the trigger. One day as he his performing his daily ritual -- loading live amunition into the gun -- another coworker opens fire on the department. Slater's character then shoots that man and puts an end to his rampage. And he is almost declared the hero, though no one ever knows if he shot that man in defense or out of spite because that man did what he never could.
No matter how many times anyone describes this movie to me as a comedy, I will simply not understand where that comes from. You may call it a dark comedy, but it is dark without the comedy. The characters are all so uncomfortable around each other, you cannot help but feel uncomfortable seeing them on screen. The plot is weak, which would lead me to assume the characters were the focus, but consider that not only does Slater's guy take his gun to work everyday but he only talks to his fish. Oh yeah, and they talk to him too. You decide.
The movie glossed over the fact that he carried a gun to work every day, almost as if society has become so accustomed to violence that this is acceptable behavior. Society has become accustomed to a certain level of violence, which is sad in and of itself, but movies that take characters like this protagonist lightly are not ones I will enjoy.
