Bob is a man on the edge of sanity, ready to go on a killing spree at his work when someone beats him to the punch. Luckily he's there to save the day and the bad guy becomes the hero, but will his new found popularity last?
Christian Slater does an excellent role as Bob, the deranged businessman in this strangely great flick.
In the beginning Bob is at his cubical loading his revolver, putting a name on every bullet but before he can unleash his nerd fury one of his supervisors comes over and changes his mind so he unloads the gun, puts the bullets and gun in his drawer and heads home where he strangely talks to his pet goldfish who degrades him for not going through with his original plan. Next he has a microwave dinner in front of the tube and works on some microscopic art of some sort.
The next day back at work a couple guys he works with mess with him, ultimately shattering his favorite hula girl which sets him off, and it's back to loading the gun and naming who he's going to shoot with each bullet, only this time when he gets to the last bullet it slips from his grasp, lands on the ground and rolls under his cubical into the isle. Frantically Bob jumps on his knees and tries to grasp the bullet before anyone sees it but before he knows it a foot steps on the bullet and the man possessing said foot starts spreading lead himself, shooting and killing a few of his co-workers. Bob, stunned that someone beat him to the slaughter stands up to find it's another co-worker that was fed up with people picking on him. Luckily Bob's gun is still loaded and in hand as he opens fire through his cubical killing the maniac and ending what was HIS shining moment at the hand of another man, now dead on the ground.
 
So now Bob's the big hero, everyone thinks he's tops, he gets a promotion and a new car, which we later find out used to belong to one of the girls shot in the incident, who's ironically enough Bob's love interest. At the hospital he goes to see her because apparently she's been waiting for him and when he comes in he's spit on and cursed for not letting the killer finish the job as she's paralyzed now and wants to die. Later we find that she asks Bob to finish the job but can he do it? Can he end the pain of someone he's obsessed with or will he botch that up too and make things worse?
This movie really does have a good feel to it, like it could possibly happen, almost like an After School Special or something. Slater does an excellent role as balding super nerd Bob and sells his character in this movie so you gotta give him props for still having what it takes to have a diverse range like he does. I think the mentality of Bob's character is really cool and the little things like imagining he's blowing up his work building and talking to his fish, it's a great touch to show how crazy he really is.
This movie probably won't be a huge hit as it's not extremely well known as of yet but I do think that it's definitely worth watching just for a few good laughs and a movie that'll make you see that your own life isn't' really all that bad.
Consider He Was a Quiet Man your motivational guidebook to life in the work area. Yeah, I laugh at that idea too.
This movie really surprised me with the fact that it was pretty entertaining, not a great budget box office hit but definitely not bad at all. Go check this one out.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2007
DIRECTOR: Frank A. Cappello
WRITING CREDITS: Frank A. Cappello
GENRE: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
CAST: Christian Slater, William H. Macy, Elisha Cuthbert
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 95 min
RATING: 6/10
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