
A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her.... (Full plot summary below)
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A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her.
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| Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum[Polanski's] usual surrealism is almost completely absent. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanford"a tepid brew that never comes to a full boil" |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseCuriously and effectively weds the unlikely adventure of a thriller to the plodding realism of daily life... [Blu-ray] |
| United Press InternationalCathy BurkeIt's a film about ordinary people put in unordinary circumstances pressed to extraordinary levels, and the film itself becomes extraordinary by the effort. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonPolanski's thriller boasts several superb set pieces, even if it doesn't quite snap shut on the mind the way Chinatown did. Funny and unsettling. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelFord`s character is disoriented from the very beginning of the movie, suffering from jet lag, and you can view the movie as one long tourist`s nightmare. Although the suspense never reaches the level of Polanski`s finest work-there are plot holes that are enormous-the film is well made technically and has so many twists and turns that one can`t help but want stick around to see how it turns out. In other words, you have just read a guarded recommendation. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertEven with its excesses, Frantic is a reminder of how absorbing a good thriller can be. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonIn Roman Polanski's Frantic--an elegant, icy thriller about an American doctor chasing his wife's kidnapers through the deadlier byways of Paris--we can tell after 10 minutes that we're in the hands of a superb craftsman. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinFrantic generates its suspense precisely because it appears so reasonable, because it takes such a calm, methodical approach to the maddening events that lure Dr. Walker into the maelstrom. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxSome of Ford's best work to date, an absorbing thriller spun from a marvelously simple concept. |