Don't Say A Word

Synopsis: When the daughter of a prominent New York psychiatrist is kidnapped, his only hope for her safe return is to pry a 6-digit number from the memory of a trouble teenage girl - and time is running out.

Rating: R

Run Time: 1 Hour 53 Minutes

Director: Gary Fleder

Dvd Extra's: English and Spanish Language. Scene Specific commentaries by Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Famke Janssen, Oliver Platt. Director's commentary by Gary Fleder, Deleted Scenes. Making of Featurette. Set tour featurette. Film scoring featurette, Screening room dailies. Brittany Murphy screen test. Storyboard to screen test. Cast/crew bios. Subtitles: English.

Nudity Factor: None

Of Note: Sean Bean actually spoke to Michael Douglas and Famke Janssen on the cell phones during filming.


Review by: Jason James
Rating:
I would say the best parts of this movie take place right at the beginning when you find out what is going on. After that I kept thinking that I feel asleep and missed something as it starts to just kind of jump around. The worst of it is it just kind of jumps right over a good ending and ends rather cheesy. At least the final line that is delivered is rather cheesy. The premise of the movie is awesome. A doctor's daughter is kindnapped while the parents are sleeping. Upon discovering this they get a mysterious phone call that explains that the doctor must get information out of a mental patient if he ever wants to see his daughter again. On top of this they have somehow put cameras and mics into the house so that they know if they call the cops or call others for help. This is the part that is setup very nice then it just starts to jump around a bit. This is a pretty good movie but you never really feel that the daughter is in danger making it hard to get emotionally involved. The end is rather anti climatic and I am sure violates about a 1,000 police procedures but who is counting. Overall it is not terrible just seemed to lack some structure in places that prevent this from being as good as it could have been.