Frantic (1988)

I love this movie so much

The greatest movie ever made..!

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The odds are against any film maker who tries to make a movie in a foreign country. The dialogue between the american and french characters is painful to watch. The story has potential and Mr. Polanski does a great job of not making the plot too obvious... There even are quite a few suspenseful scenes. It is a watchable movie and Emmanuelle is stunning throughout. It is a decent film to study. All this being said, I found that the movie lacked something. The soundtrack was quite poor in my opinion. The bad guys were not showcased enough...It's hard to put a finger on what really went wrong but it is missing a little something. The language barrier makes it even harder to follow the whole story, so it seems the story was dumbed down thus making it a bit boring. But again, Emmanuelle saves the movie. Enjoy

I remember watching this film years ago, now I remember why I had forgotten the ending, it's simply because the film makes no sense at all and I couldn't bear it to the end I won't write reams on the holes in the plot/story. Bottom line is that neither the acting nor the story are the least bit engaging, believable or interesting. The soundtrack is repetitive and the characters are hollow. The whole film revolves around a small apparently important piece of hardware, after 90 minutes it appears to have no more importance?! It's almost as though the main characters were in different films with no real continuity except when they met. Merde.

This movie was a drag from start to finish. A good director would have needed half an hour less. Like when Walker danced with Michelle in the club(btw in a very sexual manner). What? Your wife is missing and your dancing with a smoking hot 20 year who's got a red dress on and dances like a hooker? of course.......At the airport: Walker: Oh jeez, there are police dogs trained to find drugs Michelle: Relax, There are no drugs in the suitcaseWait! what about the bag of cocaine that falls out of walker's pocket one minute later........Jesus, even a 5 year old would have recognized this.And Michelle, the girl who always wants money money money. She even busts an exchange because she wants her stupid money. Why didn't Walker knock her out for that? His wife's life is in danger and that bitch talks about money. And then, suddenly at the end Michelle says: "I don't need your money. You broke your promise" really? I mean, really? This is the girl who stole the wallet of a dead guy. Don't act like you have found proud in that wallet.And the fight at the end? The arab guy gets knocked down by Walker and instead of grabbing the weapon he just lost, the stupid girl just crawls away and does nothing. Then the arab guy gets shot in the chest. Walker, instead of grabbing the weapon that lays right beside him, he just walks away and lets the arab guy shot the girl. Are you serious?? I don't care if you have to kill off a main character. But try to bring some reason to it. Make it believable. That shows how lazy Roman polanski is as a director. Stupid characters + more and more stupid characters.

I bought a DVD set of movies with Harrison Ford in it and I looked forward to Frantic, based on the reviews and ratings here. Unfortunately, it was only a mediocre movie and I was somewhat disappointed. For one thing, it was very dated. and by that I do not mean that you could feel the age from the 80s dress and technology, although you could. Those concerns fade into the background in a movie when the plot is compelling. What i mean is, the writing was so dated. The plot was so unsophisticated. For a simple mix-up, they sure dragged out the discovery and the trade-off. A few things were so unbelievable, like when the bad guys just give up at the end. Like, they've already shot someone. they aren't going to shoot someone else who throws away what they are after?? There were a few things that I liked. I liked the performances, and I like that the relationship between Ford's character and Michelle was not the same old stereotypical sexual tension side-kick role.