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An inane, wannabe-Hithcockian thriller which looks and feels like an episode of some dreary Mittel-European crime series, Do Not Disturb follows the dangerous Amsterdam vacation of an American couple (William Hurt and Jennifer Tilly) whose daughter witnesses a murder.

The movie is tedious and worthless... until the climax, when my enjoyment rocketed through the roof during a supremely cheesy car chase, with a grimacing Hurt clinging to the top of an ambulance. When the ambulance's doors burst open and the girl on the stretcher was propelled towards a river, I was laughing so hard my neighbors probably worried about my sanity. It's like something out of Hot Shots or Naked Gun; more scenes of this kind and the movie would almost have been worth recommending.

4/10

A mute but resourceful 10 year old girl does amazing stunt acts while trying to escape a "professional" killer. (At some points it felt like I was watching a remake of "Home Alone"). The killer runs around all over, with a very conspicuous gun in his hand, which he discharges every few minutes. Nobody seems to notice any of that. The whole of Amsterdam just seems to go about their own business. Then there's the plot. Well, suffice it to say that it's absurd. The ending is preposterous: They try to set up a trap and catch the suspect; he ends up killing 2 people and stealing an ambulance (so much for the set-up plan); then there's a car chase (another one...); in which he destroys a lot of property, and probably injure a lot of people; all that to kill a girl who could identify him...!!! He now has hundreds of people who can testify against him! What are those fine actors doing in this movie? That's the biggest mystery to me.

At least distributors in the United States and England seem to have realized that just because it has an Oscar winning actor in it (William Hurt) doesn't indicate that it deserves to darken a movie theater's door. He's the father of the ten year old mute/deaf girl who witnesses a murder, unaware that the killer is after her now. Jennifer Tilly is struggling hard to be non-quirky as her mother, and fails miserably. The film has so many flaws that starts with the insinuation of the native Amsterdam residents that everybody in town speaks English, with absolutely no trace of anything that indicates an accent. Poor Denis Leary gives an embarrassing performance as the girl's rescuer, talking nonstop and being absolutely annoying and completely unfunny.

Then there's the mixture of action with very inappropriate cartoonish comedy, so out of place that I sat there close mouthed with only eye rolls and head shakes moving on my face. This asks, "What were they thinking?", and "Can movies get any worse than this?" Pronably, but it would be awfully difficult. This will manage to stay off my worst films released in the United States that year, only because it didn't get a release other than possibly late night cable TV and home video where the store buyers most likely shrugged and avoided the purchase. The viewer nowadays has the resources they didn't have in 1999, so avoiding this becomes a much easier choice. Definitely the stinker of everybody involved's career and far worse than the 1/10 rating indicates.

This is something of a black comedy ie. some comedy and some serious bits; and some nasty/violent things made funny. A few clever scenes; some good suspense.

Sound like anything else? Yup, it's LBT (Low-Budget Tarantino). The dialogue isn't as clever or fresh; but neither is it as pompous and pretentious as QT's work.

And it doesn't make believe that it's anything creative and new and different. Just a dumb (unable to speak) 10-year-old girl being pursued by a hired killer.

Hurt has developed a style of mumbling and swallowing his words - bored with the movies he's offered? Jennifer Tilly is just ordinary. Leary is OK but he's not in it for long.

It's just something OK to watch late at night.