Hear No Evil

I thought this was a charming romantic movie, showing just how easy it is to find love if you happen to be a successful personal trainer, and a successful restaurant owner, both of whom are conveniently single, and share an acquaintance who happens to be "killed" over a stolen coin which just happens to be hotly and murderously pursued. Just get thrown together running from killers, and suddenly - true love! Who knew it could be so simple?

Not bad but another re-run of bad cop/harried citizen. Things were simply too pat for me even though it was fairly well done. I did appreciate the surprise at the end, but not so much the ending itself. I still find Matlin's voice totally irritating.

I wondered if this was a TV movie where it was filmed with spiced-up language and nudity for the European market. It comes off like a Lifetime TV movie pre-Lifetime.

Marlee Matlin, Martin Sheen, D. B. Sweeney, and John C. McGinley star in "Hear No Evil," a 1993 film. After a museum robbery during which a rare coin owned by Alexander the Great is stolen, a journalist (McGinley) is close to a huge story and expose about the robbery.

A corrupt police officer (Sheen) believes McGinley has the coin and begins to terrorize him and everyone around him, including the journalist's best friend (Sweeney) and a young deaf woman (Matlin).

This movie quickly descended down the path of a screamathon, with Matlin and Sweeney in all kinds of danger from various people.

The talent involved was on a much higher level than the script, which was derivative with a love story that wasn't particularly believable, since we didn't know the characters well and they knew each other less.

I give Marlee Matlin a huge amount of credit. Though this film isn't an indication of it, she's found her way into mainstream work despite her deafness, even appearing on Dancing with the Stars. A remarkable woman who deserved much better than this material.

to me,this is just a standard suspense thriller/crime drama.although,in reality,it isn't really thrilling or suspenseful.in fact,it could be a TV episode from a crime show.except for the bit of nudity.you have your usual cast of characters,criminals looking for something,murders,witnesses,plot twists that aren't.i like Marlee Matlin and D.B. Sweeney,but i didn't sense any chemistry between them.the story itself is,like i said,fairly generic,and uninvolving,with a few things that don't add up.in other words,logic gaps.to be fair there are a few tense moments,adding up to maybe five minutes or so of the total running time.otherwise,it's slow and yawn inducing.for me,Hear no Evil is a 4/10

I imagine that for people like Marlee Matlin, they simply don't get a lot of different roles to choose from, and have to pick the very little they are given, even if the work they are offered simply isn't good. "Hear No Evil", as you might have guessed, isn't a good movie. In fairness to Matlin, she does give it all for this role, but this role - as well as the rest of the script - is not very well written. In the first part of the movie, we learn next to nothing about her character, so it's hard to sympathize with her character when the bad things start happening to her. It feels at times, not just in the first part of the movie, that this movie is missing a lot of scenes that would explain a lot of things, even though the movie runs 97 minutes. What we end up with is a movie that seems to have an insulting attitude towards the audience's intelligence. The movie is not thrilling, nor does it give any interesting insight towards people who are deaf. A big disappointment.