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Polanski returns to fertile ground, the myth of the male American hero, this time by way of Hitchcock's "man on the run" and "McGuffin" motifs. Ford is a limited actor, but a great one when working within his range, and this role plays to his strengths.
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De certa forma há por aqui uma evocação conceptual hitchcockiana cruzada com um certo tom de James Bond inicial (e até tem surge a ajuda de uma espécie de Bond-girl) na forma como se desenrolam tantos dilemas apartir de uma simples troca de malas num aeroporto, que evolui para o rapto da esposa de um doutor, que para tentar salvar a esposa esbarra num pais cheio de burocracias, e desenrrascando-se sozinho a sua investigação amadora vai o levar até a…
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Eu deixava lá a esposa e regressava para casa com a menina francesa que era toda jeitosa. Upa upa!
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So much more than I expected and I am a fan of Harrison Ford so I am trying to make my way through his entire back catalogue, this was a film I was not anticipating enjoying. However it is an interesting film, though I was expecting a twist like flight plan with no one believing his wife was missing, it is a thriller based on a mistake that escalates out of hand. However by the end I did not know…
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There are aspects that I really liked. The film remains remarkably grounded, never resorting to making Ford into a unbelievable hero, and the procedural nature of the first hour, where we simply follow him as he first talks to Hotel security, then the cops and finally the US embassy is unexpected and works well. There is of course a lot of darkly funny Polanski stuff. But the film never becomes all that exciting and the mystery is deeply uninvolving. The relationship between Ford and Emmanuelle Seigner is interesting and fun, but is spoiled by the ending.
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An intense yet mesmerizing thriller about an American doctor searching for his kidnapped wife in Paris with the help of a young woman as it's one of Polanski's more underrated features as it also features a brilliant Harrison Ford.
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Thriller vendidote pero efectivo... casi todo el tiempo. Funciona mejor cuando Polanski juega a ser Hitchcock (el hotel, el tejado, etc) pero su convencionalismo y Sagnier le hacen daño.
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Doctor and wife go to Paris, they're separated and he goes on search to find out what happened to her. Meets young foreign girl who helps him out. Basically Frantic is like that Liam Neeson film Unknown, except not shit.
Harrison Ford is good, the girl is very French. Overall fairly enjoyable if not especially remarkable.
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What's not to like about Roman Polanski's Frantic. To me Frantic is the perfect slow-burning thriller (no I don't agree when people describe it as dull) starring Harrison Ford eventually teaming up with the lovely Emmanuelle Seigner. Frantic maybe considered one the lesser Harrison Ford thrillers but I just love it to bits. Ford is very believable as Doctor Walker and his screen presence just carries the story forward. The chemistry between him and the Michelle character is what I've…
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This was not a bad film by any means, but sadly it was pretty forgettable: It is interesting, but only mildly; Harrison Ford is great as always, but nothing more; and Polanski's touch was signature, but nothing surprisingly brilliant.
The most memorable thing about Frantic was the relationship between the main character and his unexpected female companion. Those two as a duo were rather enjoyable to watch.
I also admired how this film kept a feeling of realism. Most suspense…
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My New Year's resolution is to watch a shitload of Polanski, an area of my film-watching I feel somewhat lacking. I had a lot of fun with this Hitchcockian thriller set in Paris where quite quickly the mundane turns into Harrison in Wonderland... Thoroughly enjoyable except that the rabbit in this case couldn't act to save her life (I believe this is the same tone-deaf thespian from Ninth Gate). The last act is disappointing but man the journey was worth it.