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Do Not Disturb (1999) is a English movie. Dick Maas has directed this movie. William Hurt,Jennifer Tilly,Francesca Brown,Denis Leary are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1999. Do Not Disturb (1999) is considered one of the best Action,Comedy,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
American pharmaceutical executive Walter Richmond takes a business trip to Amsterdam, accompanied by his wife Cathryn and their 10-year-old daughter Melissa, who has been mute ever since an accident some time ago. To communicate, Melissa uses a small magic marker board that she wears around her neck. Melissa makes a trip to the ladies' room at the hotel De L'Europe and gets separated from her parents. Melissa wanders out of the hotel and onto the street, where she witnesses the murder of Simon Van Der Molen, the attorney representing Walter's Dutch client. Unfortunately, Melissa is spotted by the killers, who are hit man Bruno Decker and his employer Rudolph Hartman, who turns out to be Walter's client. Hartman had Van Der Molen killed to prevent Van Der Molen from revealing the side effects of Hartman's new medication, which he's marketing to Walter's firm. If Van Der Molen would have told Walter about the side effects, Walter would have declined the medication, and Hartman would ...
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Do Not Disturb (1999) Reviews
Strangest Action Flick I've ever seen
In the first 20 minutes of this flick I began to wonder if there was an Amsterdam in the U.S. Not one major or minor role in this movie had a Dutch accent. This distracted me from enjoying an otherwise interesting story set in one of Europe's oldest cities. Distraction then led to befuddlement. The Script writer seemed fixated on Amsterdam's reputation as a purveyor of child porn and pedophilia. There was more than a couple of instants were characters made reference to their own awful proclivity. Add to that gruesome and astonishingly gratuitous scenes of violence which were oddly incongruous (ie. the ambulance wheel rolling over a para-medic's head mashing it like an over-ripe pumpkin.) But most of all. I could not believe Oscar-winner, William Hurt or even Jennifer Tilly and Dennis Leary could associate themselves with this strange and uneven film.
... and with William Hurt as Inspector Derrick
An inane, wannabe-Hithcockian thriller which looks and feels like an episode of some dreary Mittel-European crime series, Do Not Disturb follows the dangerous Amsterdam vacation of an American couple (William Hurt and Jennifer Tilly) whose daughter witnesses a murder. The movie is tedious and worthless... until the climax, when my enjoyment rocketed through the roof during a supremely cheesy car chase, with a grimacing Hurt clinging to the top of an ambulance. When the ambulance's doors burst open and the girl on the stretcher was propelled towards a river, I was laughing so hard my neighbors probably worried about my sanity. It's like something out of Hot Shots or Naked Gun; more scenes of this kind and the movie would almost have been worth recommending. 4/10
Worst Ever Film Category
This ranks amongst the worst films I've ever seen. I bought the DVD based on the plot summary which sounded interesting and because William Hurt was one of the actors who normally features in great movies. After about 15 minutes, when we got to the gangster scene at the back of the hotel, I had to check the back of the box to see if it was a comedy rather than a "thriller with more twists and turns than the streets of Amsterdam itself". The ridiculous story line and the ham acting were making me laugh. I persevered to the end of the film in the desperate hope that there would be a great point or message but alas this film had absolutely no redeeming features for me. Truly awful. It says on the back cover "When you can't scream you can only run..." but I figured out another two options, cringe or howl with laughter.
Do Not Disturb your brain....
...by watching this tripe! I waited nearly 3 years to see this film because I really enjoy William Hurt's performances, so you can imagine how shocked and (yes) disturbed I was when I began watching it on cable last night and saw how unbelievably BAD he is in this movie. He has a ridiculous on-again off-again Southern accent, and he cannot say one single line of dialogue that sounds convincing. The material he's given is horrendous, it's true -- badly paced, thoroughly uneven in every way: the plot veers from pathetic stabs (no pun intended) at black comedy to morbid, monotonous melodrama and car chases, with not one truly satisfying moment in the entire film. Jennifer Tilly, surprisingly, came off very well here - she was believable and sympathetic throughout. Actually, there WAS one satisfying moment -- when this torturous exercise in trashy tedium finally wrapped up and the end titles rolled on the screen. William Hurt must have wanted to visit Amsterdam really bad.
Awful
A mute but resourceful 10 year old girl does amazing stunt acts while trying to escape a "professional" killer. (At some points it felt like I was watching a remake of "Home Alone"). The killer runs around all over, with a very conspicuous gun in his hand, which he discharges every few minutes. Nobody seems to notice any of that. The whole of Amsterdam just seems to go about their own business. Then there's the plot. Well, suffice it to say that it's absurd. The ending is preposterous: They try to set up a trap and catch the suspect; he ends up killing 2 people and stealing an ambulance (so much for the set-up plan); then there's a car chase (another one...); in which he destroys a lot of property, and probably injure a lot of people; all that to kill a girl who could identify him...!!! He now has hundreds of people who can testify against him! What are those fine actors doing in this movie? That's the biggest mystery to me.