A San Francisco doctor and his wife on vacation in Paris find themselves caught up in international intrigue after the wife is captured by spies for some unknown reason, etc etc. This is a remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much for the most part.
Yet another Hitchcock wanna be. Frantic is directed and co written by Roman Polanski in what is a pretty obvious attempt to make a more "normal" film for a more mainstream audience. It's hard to know what is worse to watch this craven shot at mediocre mainstream film making from this director or the ultra weirdo Polanski who makes nutty and almost unwatchable films like Cul-Du-Sac and What? .
In spite of the film making skill and the presence of Polanski's wife in very short mini's you have to sit and watch the film's very obvious plot unfold as Harrison Ford goes through the motions of finding his wife. There are a couple of attempts at some mild criticism about the bureaucracies of the government's of France and the United States being unable to help Ford but this subplot is half baked at best.
Frankly the film doesn't hold up plot wise, when Ford begins to figure out what happened to his wife and why, he doesn't go back to the police even as the situation gets increasingly dangerous. If he did that, the film would be over in about 45 minutes, so the contrived situations continue to pile up.
Another underdeveloped film from a good filmmaker.
120 minutes
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