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‘The Silent Hour’ Review: Joel Kinnaman Gets Trapped in an Apartment Building — and in a Ho-Hum Thriller
A detective grappling with permanent hearing loss protects a deaf star witness in 'The Silent Hour,' a flatlining thriller.
The trouble is director Brad Anderson and screenwriter Dan Hall fail to properly mine the protagonist’s distressing predicament for its maximum potential, particularly after he’s hunted by a crew of criminals, relegating him and his deaf companion to an insular location. Still, Slater persists in getting Shaw’s career back on track, enlisting his help as an interpreter in a case involving Ava ( Sandra Mae Frank), a deaf former junkie who recorded a murder outside her soon-to-be condemned apartment building. Outside of scenes where the pair figure out their version of a secret knock utilizing sight (wiggling a dollar bill under the door), and the precise moment to blast death metal in a disgruntled neighbor’s pad, their deafness isn’t an asset to their survival.
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