WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT 'THE QUIET AMERICAN'
AND MICHAEL CAINE'S PERFORMANCE

“In director Phillip Noyce’s intimate epic, Michael Caine gives a suave, smartly controlled turn that is guaranteed a nomination.”
-Richard Corliss, Time Magazine

“My favorite performance in festival was by Michael Caine, in Philip Noyce’s touching and timely film, ‘The Quiet American.’ This may be the best performance of Michael Caine’s career. It’s a surefire Oscar nominee.”
-Roger Ebert, Ebert and Roeper

“May in fact be the best performance of Caine’s career and seems certain to win him another Oscar nomination! He is immediately affecting.
Inspiring. Michael Caine is completely at ease in his role. He knows himself, his body, his face, his voice. [This is a role that] he has trained for a lifetime to play. Michael Caine in the right role is a superb actor. In The Quiet American, we know within minutes that he is not only right but inevitable for the role. He plays his character as if it is the most natural thing in the world. His character engaged me all the way through.”
-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“One of the festival’s best films! Brilliant and highly emotional!
-Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

“Phillip Noyce’s vividly detailed and richly atmospheric adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel about early U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War may be the most important movie of the year. It’s also one of the year’s most arrestingly entertaining and impressively acted films. Michael Caine offers one of his finest performances!”
-Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner

“A powerful film! A gripping story dredged in danger and foreign intrigue…the film explodes, it delivers a precisely targeted bang that guys like Steven Spielberg and John Woo wouldn’t understand if it knocked them over. Caine’s masterful, wide-ranging performance should earn him yet another Oscar nomination.”
-Janice Page, Boston Globe