Noise

November. 06,2007      
Rating:
6.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.

Tim Robbins as  David Owen
Bridget Moynahan as  Helen Owen
William Hurt as  Mayor Schneer
Margarita Levieva as  Ekaterina Filippovna
María Ballesteros as  Gruska
William Baldwin as  Mayor's Chief of Staff
Colleen Camp as  Mrs. Broomell
Clark Middleton as  Board of Elections Worker #1
Peggy Gormley as  Small Claims Judge
Michael J. Burg as  Judson

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Reviews

Cubussoli
2007/11/06

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Cleveronix
2007/11/07

A different way of telling a story

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Chirphymium
2007/11/08

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Francene Odetta
2007/11/09

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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dantonstl
2007/11/10

when i found this i was in santa cruz, California. i had been laying down around a carport that house a few cars, maybe i should call it a parking garage. it seemed to me that there were multiple couples coming to and from the same vehicle at times. at some point in time while looking inside a video store i saw this and its summary at that time i thought that the synapses was addressing some mysterious hallucination..... which again appealed to my interests during that period...but now, I'm back in Orlando, fl. have mailed films with tim robbins, vincent gallo, and other Hollywood actors, but they are not on the DVD shelf in my parents home where i sent them....

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Michael O'Keefe
2007/11/11

This quirky comedy finds David Owen(Tim Robbins)slowly becoming obsessed with the noise on New York City streets. Trash trucks, motorcycles, speeding cars, car horns and the biggest offender to David's ears and inner peace is car alarms. The distracting sound of a constant car alarm renders him frustrated, impotent and psychotic. Owen instead of being powerless to the incessant noise, begins letting the air out of tires, busting windshields and cutting battery cables. After losing his job, wife(Bridget Moynahan) and daughter...David takes on his irrational vigilante justice full time and becomes known to the public... and NYC mayor(William Hurt)as "The Rectifier". Cerebral comedy, dark humor and strong sexual situations provides NOISE with substance. Others in the cast: Maria Ballesteros, William Baldwin, Margarita Levieva, Gabrielle Brennan and Chuck Cooper.

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Roland E. Zwick
2007/11/12

David Owen is as mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. What he's mad about is car alarms. Car alarms that go off in the middle of the night, or when he's trying to put his colicky baby to sleep, or when he's making love to his wife, or when he's just this close to grasping a particularly dense passage in a treatise by Hegel. After years of putting up with this ubiquitous urban din and vainly pleading with the authorities to do something about it, David finally resorts to vigilantism, smashing out the windows and dismantling the alarms of the offending vehicles, even going so far as to leave a calling card in his wake identifying himself as The Rectifier. Soon the mysterious noise-fighter has achieved near folk-hero status among his fellow Manhattanites and become a true thorn-in-the-side to the city's unctuous mayor, played amusingly by William Hurt.Sort of a dark comic, upscale version of "Taxi Driver," "Noise" is a rage-against-the-machine fantasy that chooses as its target the relentless cacophony of city life. David, who's a successful attorney in his day job, isn't quite as off the rails as Travis Bickle, but there are times when his obsessiveness begins to border on the psychotic. Is David suffering from mental illness or is he simply acting out against the impotency and inadequacy he feels in all areas of his life? Or does he just get off on hating and being angry all the time? Whatever the underlying psychological reason, once he establishes himself as The Rectifier, David develops a whole new outlook on life. And who among us can't identify at least to some extent with David's frustration, for don't we all have something that forever gets under our skin and that we would do just about anything we could to get it to stop? David just happens to be the one person to actually act on that impulse.Written and directed by Henry Bean, "Noise" is a satire of metropolitan neuroticism performed in a minor key. Tim Robbins carries the film with his understated portrait of a man wound up so tight that he threatens at any moment to completely unravel. He receives solid support from Bridget Moynihan as the wife who can't understand why the man she married has suddenly turned into a raving lunatic, and Margarita Levieva as an attractive newspaper reporter who uncovers The Rectifier's true identity and wants to explore what really makes this explosive man-of-the-people figure "tick." The humor isn't always as uproarious as it could be, but everyone, not just city-dwellers, should find something to appreciate in David Owens' amusingly extended rant.

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Lee Alon
2007/11/13

Noise is one of those movies we've wanted to watch for quite some time but never got a chance. It surfaced on the Xbox video marketplace, and so we thought we'd give it a rent. But while the issue of noise harassment is one that hits close to home for many, the same can't be so easily said of the movie bearing the name.The reason for that is double standardization, and Henry Bean's Noise sins greatly in applying hypocrisy as one of its primary assets. Having expressed this sentiment, Noise is nonetheless a smart, entertaining movie doing more to promote understanding of the harm done by noise than most authorities ever could, and for that we heartily recommend it. It's also got Tim Robbins in the main role, and he's as awesome as ever.In this one he plays David Owen, a successful professional and family man who relocates to Upper West Side Manhattan from suburban environs. Initially, the NYC apartment experience works well for Owen, his wife (Bridget Moynahan) and daughter (Gabrielle Brennan). Over time, though, he begins to get increasingly irritated with car alarms going off unattended, to the point of literally ruining his life. Precipitated by this trauma, and by the indifference to his plight offered by those around him, a transformation occurs, one in which docile David Owen becomes a rampaging anti-noise vigilante with no qualms over taking matters into his own hands.But this is where Bean and his movie verge into hypocrisy-land. While the main character crusades against noise makers, he only seems to care about inadvertent machine-generated noise like alarms and backup beepers. Yet, his own wife is shown to be a chamber musician who regularly holds recitals in their living room. Are we certain the neighbors approve? Therefore, the overt conduct of this film is too limited in scope to a specific kind of noise, while perhaps tacitly endorsing a much more malicious form causing misery to millions.Later the story does acknowledge the individual nature of suffering from noise – the protagonist encounters those who complain about manhole covers, drum playing neighbors, boomboxes and other problems. He also hooks up with one of the noise makers, done by lovely Margarita Levieva, who becomes an unlikely ally in struggle to get city authorities to recognize the plight of the noise-terrorized citizenry. This leads to a borderline-racist parody of Mayor Bloomberg done by an overly smug William Hurt.In showcasing a progressive struggle, the movie does a lot of good – there's a very efficient portrayal of the uncaring legal system's impotence in enforcing noise regulations, something that needs to be shown if change is ever to materialize. Owen ends up achieving a modest victory, and the movie concludes on a positive, satisfying note.Noise goes by quickly and says quite a bit for its modest timespan. Tim Robbins, as usual, does a wonderful job as a person suffering from torture at the hands of stupid, monolithic factors he can't control in a world that no longer bothers with traditional civilities. Anyone who's ever been in that situation will see themselves in Robbins' character right away.The narrow scope Noise maintains most of the time, the hypocrisy and the mere token mention of the broader issue of noise, however, take away from the sense of achievement here. As it stands, the film comes too close to discussing a mere pet peeve rather than a far reaching social sickness, but even so, this is one movie you should watch.

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