it seem that every once and a while and an occasionally brilliant film will catch my attention in the late hour of the night ( or the early hour of the morning and a it be in my case ) while i find that film in he be a quiet man and writer director frank a. cappello brilliantly act and smartly write satire about that unlikely hero whose heroic act may not have be so heroic and and in fact mask an inner rage that may actually make him the villain . a seriously understated christian slater star a bob maconel and a frustrated office worker whose first word in the picture have him count the amount of bullet in his gun and who his intend target be go to be . bob live alone and work a a drone in one of those big technology firm where it never make clear what it be that they actually do and or what everyone job be . bob day to day existence consist of him feed his fish ( who he talk to and they occasionally give him bad advice and fuel his murderous rage ) and go to work and rarely be acknowledge by his neighbor and be pick on by his co worker and and work up the courage to go on his deadly shooting spree . well and just when bob finally get the courage to do the deed and he be beat to the punch by a fellow enraged office worker . in the middle of the carnage and bob and the shooter manage to strike up a casual conversation . when bob ask why he not go to shoot him and the man reply and because youre the only person in this office who more pathetic than i be . bob take this personally and gun down the assailant . afterward and he rush to the side of the office beauty and vanessa park ( elisha cuthbert ) and who be seriously wound in the attack and be the only person bob ever really liked . her smile could light up a room and be tell throughout the film . bob be then brand a hero . the people he despise be now his best friend and include the office bully and the office slut and who would have never give the time of day before . ( she get her comeuppance in one particular scene that be all of hilarious and disgusting and and disturb . ) he get a promotion and a brand new office next to the big bos and mr. shelby ( william h. macy ) and and the company car . his neighbor finally acknowledge him while when one of them ask when do he move in and bob reply and i have live here five year . he soon begin to visit vanessa in the hospital and whose spine be sever by a bullet and be now a quadriplegic . she beg him to finish what the shooter start . when he relent and that when the two begin a tentative relationship that begin to calm the deadly monster lurk within him . later on in the film and however and trouble question begin to arise about bob sanity and his grip on his new reality that he have find himself in . a many have mention and he be a quiet man and seem to combine element of past similar theme feature include fall down and office space and a history of violence and plus a few of the artistically weird storytelling aesthetic of a david lynch picture . similarity seem to end fairly early in the picture after bob first become a hero and a medium darling . it seem that when you finally have a grasp on where it all head and the picture do a 360 and wind up go right back to where it start and both metaphorically and literally . slater be pretty good in this film while his performance here work from his first second on screen and his character of office drone bob maconel combine element of the main character from the film i mention earlier and hit all the right emotive note . for year and he be hound by his jack nicholson obsession and i think here he seem to have finally come into his own a a seriously demented loner who be quickly lose his grip on reality . while by no mean one of my favorite actress and it be a delight to see elisha cuthbert in a role where her gorgeous look be only part of her performance and be not the performance while here be a beautiful woman who freely admit to use her sexuality a a mean of get ahead in life and now she be reduce to nothing a fact that she freely admit to have accept and finally have to take thing extra slow because her most valuable asset have be take away from her represent her own body . maybe i be overreach or be overly critical i do like her in the girl next door ( 2004 ) she can act and it that i haven not like too many of her film project since 04. anyway and when she confine to a wheelchair for the rest of her life and for me and it almost like step back to truly appreciate a fine piece of art . only then and be she truly beautiful . he be a quiet man be not a perfect film . the script be prone to occasional slip of the pen in certain place and but the performance ( especially by christian slater and elisha cuthbert ) and cappello artistic direction and grip on the finer point of the material make up for it . he be a quiet man be one of those brilliant movie that force u to look at ourselves and see what make u tick . it funny and it dramatic and it also occasionally quite disturbing and but it be an example of all around great and late night fanfare that deserve more respect from the movie go public . positive .