Quicksand (2004)

Expected more

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

After a workaholic banker journeys to Monaco to investigate the suspicious activities of a company, he finds himself framed for murder and running for his life. Quicksand is an entertaining action thriller starring Michael Keaton and Michael Caine. Now that isn't what i would have hoped seeing Batman and Alfred star in but it's not as bad as i heard either. Keaton gives a great performance as usual and Caine ain't that bad either, Judith Godrèche is also good in the supporting role as for the rest of the Cast? Some were very good in their roles for example Xander Berkeley and some others such as Serbedzija were a bit disappointing in their roles. Also certain jokes that are in the film or situations for example the ending could have been better and with a bit more action or suspense. The film is a mix of The Fugitive meets Taken (long before even Taken was released), there's some good performances mostly from Keaton and some good suspense and as much as some things could have been better the movie wasn't awful and it's an overall decent flick. (7.3/10)

John Mackenzie's 'Quicksand' is a Time-Pass flick, that isn't meant to be taken too seriously. It delivers what is promises: Fair Entertainment. 'Quicksand' Synopsis: After a workaholic banker journeys to Monaco to investigate the suspicious activities of a company, he finds himself framed for murder and running for his life.'Quicksand' is pretty engaging, but its surely not flawless. The Screenplay has a few loopholes, that keep popping-up, but overall, the Screenplay is fairly constructed. John Mackenzie's Direction is decent. Cinematography is good. Editing is average.Performance-Wise: Michael Keaton is excellent, as always. He plays the protagonist with ease. Sir Michael Caine appears in an extended cameo & he does just fine. Judith Godreche does an okay job. Rade Šerbedžija is superb. On the whole, 'Quicksand' is a fair entertainer.

'Quicksand' was showing this evening on CH 5, Now I'm always very wary of watching movies on that particular channel as it has become synonymous with terrible films, but I decided to watch purely on it's starring actors, in this case being Michael Caine & Michael Keaton, It's not a terrible film by any means, but it's just so mediocre, it's the kind of Film that even Steven Segal himself would probably turn down.Michael Keaton plays a New York Banker who travels to the South of France to investigate possible fraud on the Film that his company is financing, and soon finds himself up to his next in dirty cops & Russian gangsters and ends up getting framed for murder....YAWN!!!!Been there, done it, got the t-shirt! there is nothing in this film which hasn't been done better before.Michael Caine is really slumming it here, like he has done many times before..... JAWS IV: THE REVENGE or THE SWARM anyone?.... and makes what could be described as a glorified cameo.The Original 'Batman' Keaton pretty much disappeared after picking ghastly Movies to appear in, in the mid/late 90's, but really this is below him, Caine is merely cashing the check.apparently this was filmed in 2001 and not released for nearly 3 years...that tells you just about everything.as I've said above for a Film that never saw the inside of a Movie Theater it's not terrible, and watchable on TV on a Winter's night, but don't spend any money, it's not even worth the rental.**1/2 out of *****

This is a well crafted albeit formulaic movie. I don't find much fault with it - a blinking corpse can't distract me (contrary to other reviewers, as it seems). Incidentally, irritation is a major factor in the story, the main character, an ultra pedantic controller from a global consultancy enterprise (frankly a great, contemporary creation and a good, convincing performance by Michael Keaton) represents just a little, irritating grain of sand in the international machinery of crime.The plot is the 39 steps, Saboteur, North by Northwest etc. all over. A wrongly accused and framed man on the run gets help from a beautiful woman and succeeds in turning the table on his pursuers. The grace, elegance and beauty of actress Judith Godrèche is a major asset of Quicksand. As far as the crime and the front for it are concerned, I found the movie credible. I assume in this aspect it relates to actuality more accurately than one might feel comfortable with. White slave trade from Eastern Europe is a new and unpleasant reality in Western Europe and probably in America as well. It happens in front of our doorsteps, so to speak. If Quicksand helps to bring this to mind, all the better.They had some excellent location scouts working on this movie. Almost the whole story evolves in and around the town of Nice and I found they caught the feel of this picture postcard place with its not so nice underbelly perfectly. There is a great assassination scene in the central district - and one will find references to Hitchcock's Nice-movie To Catch a Thief here and there. My favorite location is the small open air cinema high up above the coastline in the hills which serves as meeting place between Keaton and Godrèche. Who wouldn't like to be there when the projector starts rolling?