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7 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
pretty good, 31 January 2006
Author:
g404c
Patient 14 is a pretty good movie about a woman (Lucy Jenner) who
becomes deaf after a tragic circumstance. She undergoes an experiment
covertly sponsored by the government to regain her hearing, and she
does. The only problem is now she can hear so well that she can hear
sounds no one else can including the thoughts of other people! What
happens next changes her life dramatically.
Jenner is very good and convincing as a newly deaf woman upset and
frustrated with having just lost her hearing. John York does an
excellent job as the social worker and there is fun chemistry between
the two of them. Patient 14 premiered on Lifetime last night. I
recommend it if you happen to see it.
6 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
The Mind Reader, 27 May 2007
Author:
Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The secretary Liza Raines (Lucy Jenner) becomes deaf after a shooting
in a robbery, is evicted and later she is found by the social assistant
Grant Kane (John J. York) living in her car. Grant brings Liza to a
Transition Shelter to be rehabilitated, and she accepts to be submitted
to an experimental treatment never tested in humans in the Center for
Hearing Research. The leader of the research Dr. Gene Kramer (John de
Lancie) is pressed by the CIA agent Aiden Porter (Costas Mandylor) that
is funding his experiment to test his vaccine of restoration of cells
in fifteen patients, and he advises that the rats subjected to the
experiment became psychotic. The patients also become psychotic and
suicidal, with the exception of Liza, the patient 14. She achieves the
ability of hearing frequencies emitted by the brain and read minds as a
side effect. Porter recruits Liza to work in CIA disclosing the
innermost thoughts of the suspects, but later Liza finds his real
hidden intentions.
"The Eavesdropper" is a reasonable movie with an original story that
has a great beginning and becomes too much complicated in the end with
the betrayals and conspiracies. I thought this movie was a pilot of a
show because of the open end. The unknown Lucy Jenner has a great
performance, but her character deserved to be better developed in the
beginning, showing her past life to the viewers. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Paciente 14" ("Patient 14")
6 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
On the other hand..., 22 November 2006
Author:
Juan Carrera from United States
Contrary to the previous reviewer, it is precisely the fact that you
have to constantly hear multiple streams of thought of a few people at
the same time, and decide what is "noise" and what is "important" what
made this movie most interesting and enjoyable for me.
It is a psychological experience that is exactly the opposite of what
you normally do all day long... paying attention to the one stimulus
that you already know is important in the given situation while what is
not important automagically gets filtered out by your senses.
For a layperson (regarding the complex machinery of your senses) this
movie gives you a "hands on" way of appreciating the valuable work your
senses do for you all the time, filtering out irrelevant information
for you. Even if you are acquainted with the science behind the senses,
this movie shows you how you probably would go insane if this filtering
were not part of our makeup.
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Sounds of Silence, 11 July 2009
Author:
sol from Brooklyn NY USA
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
**SPOILERS** Surviving a brutal mugging where her husband was killed
and she left totally deaf from the gunfire Liza Raines', Lucy Jenner,
life went into a downward spiral. It's when it was decided to
experiment on Liza's deafness by implanting a number of revitalized
cells into her inner ear that she miraculously regained her hearing.
This soon became a curse more then a blessing for Liza.
These secret ear experiments conducted by Doctors Kramer & Hsieh, John
De Lancie & George Takei, did in fact improve or cure their patients
loss of hearing but also drove them both insane and suicidal. In fact
of the 15 persons who were treated by the two doctors 14 of them ended
up dead within the first three weeks with only patient #14 Liza Raines
being the only one who survived!
Not only did Liza survive with her hearing and health in tact but was
able to not only hear what people say but what they think as well!
Something that the top Washington D.C CIA Administrator Aiden Porter,
Costas Madylon, became very interested in and wanted to have Liza put
under his control.
As we soon see Porter wasn't at all interested in the national security
of the United States but the personal security of his himself and his
job. Porter wants Liza to read the minds of his superiors like Let. Gen
Geroge Humes, Tucker Smallwood, and use what dirty secrets that they
have to blackmail them. This leads in Porter's finding out through Liza
the thoughts and actions, in him being a pedophile, of a newly
nominated Supreme Court judge who was going to vote against funding his
agency. This not only forced the judge to withdrawal his nomination for
the the Supreme Court but to hang himself in his garage!
It's later when Liza realizes what her boss Aiden Porter is up to in
using her unique ability to farther his own power in government, to
both blackmail and murder, that she started to use them against him.
That's in exposing Porter's plans in him becoming the power behind the
President and the Congress in running the country anonymously and
without being challenged by the election process. But before Liza can
do that she has to prevent Porter from murdering her, like he already
did Doctors Kramer & Hsieh, in order to prevent Liza from bringing the
truth out about him and his diabolical future plans to the public!
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Keeps coming back, 22 September 2007
Author:
Nelson Shreve from United States
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
How movies become keepers in my collection is they come back on me for days or weeks after I first see them. They haunt me, in other words, until I purchase a copy. Well, it took seeing Patient 14 a second time on TV to get that kind of grip. First time through I was hooked on the babe, of course, but I missed one of the main points, that noise can drive people crazy if they don't pay attention and tune out the noxious. So here's a movie about how we deal with incoming audio information, good & bad, and there's a lot of bad out there even without super hearing. When the bad guy gets a dose of his own medicine and falls down in agony over what he's hearing, it reminds me of modern day, digitally mixed audio commercials designed to carve searing paths of selective and permanent memory through our brains.
2 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
The Mind Can Be A Dangerous Thing, 17 February 2006
Author:
xracerette from United States
I absolutely LOVED this movie. I just finished watching it on TV and it was great. The storyline was excellent. The ending left me wanting to watch more and see what happens though. Another movie should be made to let me (and others) know what happens to these people. To the makers of this movie - GREAT JOB!!! Keep making movies like this. The idea of people being out there that can actually do this is a little scary. It will make me wonder if anything I THINK is private. It would be very interesting to be able to do this - not necessarily on a regular basis, but on an as needed basis.It would help to know who is lying and who isn't. It could be a potential dangerous thing as well as a beneficial thing.
1 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
OK who wrote these other comments... Gees... Not worth a rental!, 30 March 2008
Author:
Sam Wilder from United States
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Not even worth a rental. I feel for Takai to even be on this film... You actually hope that they gave him enough money to appear. The films conflict is not even worth writing on a book. To many of these films have already been put out... there is nothing here that is original... I've seen this film.. uh actually many of this film... here we go... get ready for a spoiler... regular woman... goes under surgery... all of a sudden part of a conspiracy theory... why not just hire Wil smith and Gene hackman to tell the story themselves... this has the plot of a couple of movies I've already seen... unfortunately this one is mal executed... too bad there was no money back guaranty. this is truly a C film... not even a B film... sorry but no cigar... the director should try again. I want my 3.50 back. Only reason I gave it a 2 is because I think Mr. Takai deserves at least.
4 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
More than a TV movie but a possible TV series idea., 30 January 2006
Author:
melvin-1 from Virginia, USA
Although it was slow at times it shed light of a TV series idea in the
commentary on the DVD. There have been other series that was about a
real person or a real thing, so a focus on the character so a focus of
day to day life could work. I have come upon movies that have a
potential TV series idea and now if they would stop calling this just a
TV movie they have something worth it. I like a movie about a real
possibility and this is it, watch it if you like science fiction or
science fact. I know this is science fact some say no but a series like
this could beat other shows so I hope this is going somewhere. Another
thing my medical problems with my brain (epilepsy) years ago could have
given me a better life if only something like this had happened to me.
One thing that many people say that several minds being listened to at
once would be hard. In a crowd of people and all are talking and you
want to hear one you focus on that voice. It's the same with the mind
voice. I have talked to several of my doctors and they have commented
that it is a real possibility.
7 out of 24 people found the following review useful:
Irritating to watch, 3 October 2005
Author:
muleattack from United Kingdom
The premise that a person could hear other peoples thoughts all the
time would of course be distressing to the person involved, however,
the way that it's implemented into this film is that you, the viewer,
have to listen to the same constant babble of peoples thoughts while
trying to work out what is being discussed in the current conversation.
Trying to listen to several different voices at once and trying to
understand what they are all saying makes this film a very stressful
one to watch. Ideally you'd just pay attention to the main conversation
but they're at a volume that makes this just not possible.
To be honest, I didn't watch this film all the way through, I can't
recommend it.
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