Sean Bean’s “engrossing” psychological thriller Don’t Say a Word has landed a new streaming home in the UK and Ireland after being added to Netflix over the weekend.
Based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Klavan, the film stars Michael Douglas as a New York psychologist who is forced to treat a mentally unstable patient with a violent past, played by Brittany Murphy.
In order to secure the freedom of his kidnapped daughter (Skye McCole Bartusiak) from a gang of jewel thieves headed up by Bean’s Patrick Koster, the psychiatrist must coax a code from Murphy’s character Elisabeth, who hasn’t spoken in ten years.
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The film, which also stars Guy Torry, Jennifer Esposito, Famke Janssen and Oliver Platt, was previously available to stream on Prime Video, where it is still available to buy or rent.
Reviews for the movie were poor, with critics giving Don’t Say a Word a shocking score of 23% on Rotten Tomatoes from 113 reviews.
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User reviews on IMDb were more favourable, with one viewer writing: “Overall, I really liked this movie, which surprised me a little bit. The trailers I had seen for it had me thinking it was going to be kind of ‘cheesy’ for lack of a better word, but this was actually very engrossing.”
“I hadn’t seen this and at a loss of what to stream one evening I put it on. It’s a really good little thriller with a great star turn from Michael Douglas and a very on form, and top villain, Sean Bean,” penned another.
Another wrote: “I really don’t understand the bad reviews and low rating! This movie is totally underrated! It’s a really good thriller with interesting psychological aspect to it. Michael Douglas, Sean Bean and Brittany Murphy are all Excellent!”
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Other Sean Bean movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix
Flightplan, the 2005 film starring Bean opposite Jodie Foster and Peter Sarsgaard, follows Foster as a woman named Kyle whose daughter has gone missing mid-flight. After her daughter disappears, Kyle must prove her sanity to the crew while trying to find her daughter.
Snowpiercer, the 2022 TV show which ran for four seasons, sees Bean take on the role of Joseph Wilford, an eccentric billionaire and genius inventor. The synopsis reads: “Earth has frozen over and the last surviving humans live on a giant train circling the globe.”
Accused, legal anthology series which “follows characters from all walks of life as they end up in court, awaiting verdicts on the alleged crimes they’ve committed”. The 2012 series stars Christopher Ecclestone and Mackenzie Crook as well as Bean.
The Red Riding Trilogy, which stars Bean as an unscrupulous local real estate developer named John Dawson. Released in 2009, the series follows Andrew Garfield as “a young reporter who unravels a dark web of institutionalised corruption and deceit while investigating a string of child abductions in 1970s Yorkshire”.
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