Review – Don't Say a Word

I’m tempted to follow the title recommendation, at least in the spirit of Thumper Rabbit’s mother’s famous advice. But no, my duty is to the movie-watching public, and thus I must sound the alarm about this second-rate mystery flick. Michael Douglas plays a child psychiatrist whose daughter is kidnapped by goons who need information locked in the mind of one of the good doctor’s deeply ill patients. The premise had promise, but the execution manages nothing more than another parade of uninteresting twists and turns designed to do little more than keep the action limping along. I admit to a fair measure of natural hostility to the whole kids-in-jeopardy thing, so that might have been part of why I found this outing so completely charmless. See if desperate