Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The Worst Film Ever

Great Film overall

A Masterpiece!

I missed this one when it first came out. Word of mouth was that the movie was boring. Harrison Ford was coming off a bunch of action hits. Combine that with the title and expectations were sent in the wrong direction . Well now that I've seen it a few times over the years, I have to say the movie is very good. The tension is there right from the opening credits. It may push itself a little bit but at the end of the day it's a very enjoyable movie. Harrison Ford is not my favorite yet he is always very watchable. And he's very good in this one. I just think it could have been a little shorter. But I don't know what I would cut.

Frantic is a vastly underrated film directed by the talented Roman Polanksi. I think this film is underrated because most people expect this film to be a thriller or an action film. This movie in a way is a thriller film but it has the aura of a Hitchcock film. I think anyone who watches this movie with a clear mind will see genius filmmaking.This film is about a husband and a wife who are both doctors. After they arrive in Paris and suffer through a mix-up of luggage, the wife gets kidnapped. It's up to the husband to do what he can to get her back safe in his hands.The only mainstream actor here that everyone knows is Harrison Ford. Ford is really good and his demeanor is perfect for this movie. The other actors were okay but nothing really special.Overall, this is a tense thriller with some very good filmmaking put into it. This film is not Roman Polanski's best, but it's still quite good. There are a few slow moments, but nothing a ordinary moviegoer won't handle. I rate this film 8/10.

One of the best thriller-intrigues of Roman Polanski. It stars Harrison Ford (playing Dr. Walker) as the bereft husband whose wife disappears from their hotel room shortly after their arrival in Paris. Thus begins a labyrinthine search. About an hour into the movie he encounters part of the solution - a possible femme fatale played with verve and sultriness by Emmanuelle Seigner. Harrison Ford has always been an actor that exudes excellent chemistry with an accomplice (or "buddy" as exemplified in Star Wars) and this movie is no exception. He is even outdone by Emmanuelle in an amazing dance sequence in a nightclub – watch his middle-class angst pour out! Seeing these two together is well worth the watch (or maybe it's just my middle age hormones acting up!)The film has plenty of confrontations from Parisian detectives to American consular officials – all of these keep adding to the mystery that eventually unravels at the very end. Polanski keeps the story moving at a good, well frantic), pace as he pulls us along on the journey to re-unite Dr. Walker and his spouse. Plus there's humour through-out, even on top of Parisian roof-tops.

Frantic. It's an odd name, because this late 80s European thriller is anything but. Since the days of Master of Suspense™ Hitchcock, writers and directors have been looking at new ways of doing it. The approach of Roman Polanski and his co-writer Gerard Brach takes on a languid, brooding pace, as oppose to the breakneck action and suspenseful pacing typical to the genre.Brach and Polanski have always typically written movies that just about conform to usual narrative and genre conventions, but filled with a kind of bleak fatalism that seems counter even to darkness of film noir and its descendents. In his travels the hero of Frantic has encounters that are depressing in their familiarity. Unhelpful authorities are of course a staple of any kind of DIY crime-solving thriller, but what is so chilling here is not just the indifference of the authorities, but the believable nature of their indifference. And this is very typical of Frantic; it doesn't often step outside of plausibility for the sake of excitement. In your average thriller, when the Liberty figurine falls from the roof, it would have been picked up by a Mossad agent (or someone) before Harrison Ford and Emmanuelle Seigner could recover it, and a chase would have ensued. Here it is simply an annoying fumble that emphasises the amateurish nature of the lead characters.Given that then, how does Frantic manage to thrill and engross its audience? Quite simply, with the way it is shot. Polasnki unsettles his audiences with a camera that often shuffles around at a pace at-odds with what is happening on screen. When Ford runs into his old friends at the airport, they are full of bubbly bustle, but the camera creeps around, most unnervingly. The few action scenes tend to be played out with fewer cuts then would be expected, giving them an excruciating real-time feel. There's always a strong sense of helplessness in Polanski's images. The last glimpse we have of Ford's wife before she is kidnapped is from inside a shower, through a narrow doorway – and it is she who exits the shot, not the camera that leaves her. There are a lot of set-ups like this throughout the movie. They look so confining they give us a palpable urge to step out of the space, but the camera confounds us by staying put. The frustrating wrongness of Polanski's shots really helps to involve us in the emotions of the story.Frantic is not without its flaws. Harrison Ford is far from his best here, although he's not really given room to act well by the script in any case, except in the scene where he phones his children, in which he is adequate. The story is packed with a lot of rather obvious symbolism (the little Statue of Liberty is hardly a MacGuffin in this respect!). And yet, in the grander scheme of the movie, these are minor issues. There is ultimately a surprising amount of beauty and humanity in Frantic - the aching Ennio Morricone score, the sudden revelation of anti-war themes in the final act. It somehow makes all the bleakness and languor worthwhile.