Unoriginal and way too conventional
15 February 2002
Don't Say A Word is just so damn conventional in virtually every scene. The film plays safe throughout, there's nothing knew. As an actor, Douglas is terrific, but sometimes he picks roles which are too easy for him and thus we get the same ole routine.

The film does feature some excellent acting by the young Murphy, she certainly has the skills, very nice! Famke is okay, not much to do really and Sean Bean has a lousy script. Oliver Platt is grossly underused!

The opening of the film is the only true highlight, everything else is just to conventional! Let's not talk about the female police officer, totally boring character!

The direction isn't bad, but the real inspiration was lacking in the script.

This one is for the Douglas fans, for the rest, there's nothing knew here!
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