Synopsis
A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.
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Cast
- Tim RobbinsDavid Owen
- Bridget MoynahanHelen Owen
- William HurtMayor Schneer
- Margarita LevievaEkaterina Filippovna
- Gabrielle BrennanChris Owen
- María BallesterosGruska
- William BaldwinMayor's Chief of Staff
- Colleen CampMrs. Broomell
- Clark MiddletonBoard of Elections Worker #1
- Peggy GormleySmall Claims Judge
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
As a follow-up to his striking 2002 directorial debut, "The Believer," this second obsessive study in fanaticism by writer-director Henry Bean has its own delirious integrity and outsider-art charm. - 70
Slate
Noise is never quite as smart as it tries to be. But as summer and its mouth-breathing blockbusters loom large on the horizon, there's something touching about a movie that even tries. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
Bean fills in some empty spaces with heady thoughts about the nature of power and beauty, but the movie's real appeal lies in the simple but by no means inconsiderable pleasure of watching Tim Robbins take a hammer to a parked car as it wails pointlessly, deep into the night. - 63
New York Post
The movie has enough big-city wickedness and merry cruelty to keep things skittering unpredictably. - 50
Variety
Amusing but marginal diatribe against aural assault in Manhattan. - 50
Village Voice
Noise has too many warring genres on the boil and too many thoughts jockeying for supremacy. - 50
New York Daily News
Noise ultimately becomes a slice of city life instead of a great satire. - 42
The A.V. Club
Bean always writes interesting scripts that toy with big ideas, but the films that result aren't always good. (Or even bearable.) Here he sets out to make an aural "Fight Club," but instead he's made a movie about a guy who really needs to buy earplugs.
