Don't Say a Word Critic Reviews

Smart, stylish and, most important, satisfying.Read the full review

Generates tension from the get-go, albeit of an increasingly unpleasant variety, on its way to a disappointingly generic climax.Read the full review

If there's such a thing as joyless competence, it's exemplified by the grimly sensational kidnap thriller Don't Say a Word.Read the full review

The movie as a whole looks and occasionally plays better than it is.Read the full review

Don't Say a Word can be thought of as a case of Dial B for Boring.Read the full review

Don't say you weren't warned. There are instant clues that this ill-timed Michael Douglas vehicle is a dually unfortunate viewing experience.Read the full review

Thankfully, after its terrific start, Don't Say a Word transmogrifies so totally into Hollywood hooey that it's actually a relief. I'd hate to see a disturbance in the karmic perfection of Douglas's pitch-pure mediocrity.Read the full review

Don't even try to make any sense of this --none of it elicits a moment of genuine concern.Read the full review

Confuses an empty and derivative stylistic bravura with formal cleverness, and a sterile, mechanistic sensationalism with emotional intensity.Read the full review