The Quiet American

Review: A

I saw The Quiet Amer­i­can last week, and I wanted to do a quick review. Faith­ful to the Graham Greene novel, on which the film is based, it’s a com­pli­cated movie with char­ac­ters that are both flawed and heroic.

Con­trary to Miramax’s fears, the movie is _not_ anti-​American or unpa­tri­otic – still, it’s a film worth seeing at this time of renewed Amer­i­can adven­tur­ism. Michael Caine and Bren­dan Fraser give excep­tional per­for­mances, and the pro­duc­tion design is faith­ful to the period, with­out get­ting nos­tal­gic, ala Auto Focus and Con­fes­sions of a Dan­ger­ous Mind.