Brendan Fraser, Do Hai Yen, Do Thi Hai Yen
American aid worker Alden Pyle arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, at the height of the Vietnamese fight for independence from French colonial rule. Filled with zeal for his mission to help the peo...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 29, 2003
Stats: 406 reviews
Graham Greene novels tend to make the transition to cinema quite well, and this political drama set in the years preceding America's involvement in Vietnam is no exception. It's an interesting period piece as the subject matter is rarely seen on the screen and Michael Caine lends...( read more)
Michael Caine gives a very fine and remarkable performance. Brendon Fraser gives an exceptable and great performance. A unique and masterful thriller.
Good film in my opinion, Brendan Fraser does a good job. Michael Caine is excellent, time period in the years that set the scene for the Vietnam War, not focused on a lot in movies.
Phil Noyce deserves a whole lot more credit then he gets. He managed to get a good performance out of all people Brendan Fraser. Plus it doesn't hurt that the film has great acting from Michael Caine and based on a great novel that works wonders on the screen.
great movie, micheal cane was great and brenden fraiser suprised me
Powerful political thriller full of danger and intrigue but intelligently scripted to underscore the personal and political intersect. Michael Caine's nuanced, affecting performance pairs nicely with Brendan Fraser's good, measured performance suggesting more to his character tha...( read more)
This movie made me want to go back and re-visit Vietnam, I was so touched by the landscapes of the sets, where this movie was shot, I know things have changed during 57 years and everything but I remember when I went in 2003 it still looked like this : with the merchant boats, th...( read more)
I got this through Netflix. An interesting little film about a journalist in early 1950s Vietnam, before the French pullout. Michael Caine stars as the journalist Thomas Fowler stationed in Saigon, living with his Vietnamese mistress Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fowler's comfortable ...( read more)
Brendan Fraser is really good in this one...Caine has done a rich job here too. He seemed to brought out the best in Fraser. Are they are friends or really enemies? Are they on parallel paths or simply divergent purposes in 1952 Saigon? It is not long after WWII is finished but t...( read more)
This is a smart and literate effort that despite some weaknesses in overall conception has one undeniable virtue: There's not a single weak scene. full review
A rare Western feature shot in Vietnam, with real locations and sets that look well-worn enough to be real, with wonderful performances. full review
Phillip Noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, Christopher Doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of Greene's prose, and it's there on the screen in their version of The... full review
Caine creates a portrait of a man torn up by ambivalence, and, in the end, despair, that is just about brilliant. full review
It's hard to imagine a tighter, more gripping adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel. full review
A towering achievement with a soul-baring performance by Michael Caine that deserves the highest praise. full review
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