Quotes History Filmography Critic's Opinions Awards Interviews Words of Wisdom Image Gallery Movie Posters Forums Contact Us Home Trick-or-Treat Links			Gale Force (2002) "If you don't think Treat can get his fat self and his fellow cast members out of this jam, well, you haven't seen The Substitute 4." - Christopher Null, FILMCRITIC.COM "Williams convincingly articulates the role of the rough and tumble reluctant hero, although there's not much room for growth in this one dimensional character." - Janet Branagan, APOLLO MOVIE GUIDE Hollywood Ending (2002) "Treat Williams tries to develop Hal into more than a one-dimensional stooge." - James Berardinelli, REEL VIEWS "The supporting players -- most notably, Leoni, Williams and a well-cast George Hamilton as a slick Hollywood insider -- are at the top of their games." - Joe Leydon, THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER "Yet wisely, Allen doesn't have Williams play the studio boss as a caricature but rather as a brusque, relatively reasonable businessman." - Mick LaSalle, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "From this point on, Allen's surprisingly predictable screenwriting rears its ugly head, veering into Chevy Chase pratfalls and cheap one-liners, made even worse by a cast of B-movie chuckleheads like Treat Williams and George Hamilton." - Max Messier, FILMCRITIC.COM "Tea Leoni and Treat Williams also did okay, but neither especially blew me away." - Berge Garabedian, JOBLO.COM Venomous (2001) "Acting-wise, Treat "I should fire my agent because I'm a great actor but I keep doing sub-par movies" Williams is likeable enough to keep us watching. I have to hand it to Mr. Williams, whatever crappy projects he appears in, his performances are always bang-on....Treat Williams (David) does what he has to do and does it well. But dude...if you're reading this: YOU DESERVE BETTER! Will Hollywood wake up and give this guy something with meat already (and no, I don't mean a gay sailor)!" - Arrow in the Head, JOBLO.COM "Treat Williams is a fantastic actor, so why does he only seem to appear in direct-to-video movies? He's great in "Venemous" as the "Flawless Hero" type." - Crazy Ralph and Fox, CRAZY RALPH AND FOX REVIEWS "Treat Williams, an actor who I actually admire and like, is given very little to do with his character." - Patrick Naugle, DVD VERDICT "Though one wonders when someone will clue in that Treat Williams (Mulholland Falls) is and always will be dishwater dull and doesn't really belong in anything resembling an action flick, or in any role that's supposed to involve more than one neutral facial expression." - Ziggy, ZIGGY'S VIDEO REALM Skeletons in the Closet (2000) "...With Williams turning in a credible performance as a dad who suspsects his son (Jonathan Jackson) is murdering the hapless residents of his sleepy New Hampshire town." - Christopher Null, FILMCRITIC.COM "The greatest strength in the movie comes from the acting performances of Treat Williams and Jonathan Jackson as the troubled father and disturbed son. Williams is particularly convincing as a guy trying desperately to maintain a veneer of normalcy despite his past and his suspicions about his son....Williams does a very good job of making Will's torment seem real." - Erick Harper, DVD VERDICT The Deep End of The Ocean (1999) "Treat Williams, who works well with Pfeiffer and, it should be noted, makes a pleasing appearance, for the first time in years, in a lead role for a prestige production." - Gregory Avery, NITRATE ONLINE "The rest of the cast include Treat Williams, who lost all respect from critics with The Phantom and The Substitute II: School's Out..." - David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM "...And Treat Williams, well, Treat Williams continues his artistic trek to restore some much-needed legitimacy to his acting career." - JoBlo, JOBLO.COM "For my money, neither Michelle Pfeiffer nor Treat Williams has ever been better. Watching them sitting in their kitchen eating cereal without looking at each other, we learn more about the Cappadora family than we could from 10 pages of expository dialogue." - Andrew O'Hehir, SALON.COM "Kudos, though, to Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams as Beth and Pat. Their honest acting counters many of the film's weaknesses and makes it watchable even in the driest stretches." - Chuck Rudolph, MATINEE MAGAZINE Deep Rising (1998) "Treat Williams, still enjoying the beauty and the splendor and the wonder of his hair, is somehow studly and vital and still believable saying stuff like 'jeez louise!'" - Karina Montgomery, CINERINA "Forty-six-year-old Treat Williams (looking much younger) has been trying for decades to find the high energy he garnered for his role as New York Detective Daniel Ciello in Prince of the City (1981). Regrettably, here's another take charge role that sinks under poor writing. As the scruffy but cool-headed John J. "Finn" Finnegan, he is captain of the Saipan, a ramshackle speedboat that, much like the Millennium Falcon, can't seem to make the jump past lightspeed as it struggles with its second-hand equipment amid a raging storm." - Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE "Williams, once a "can't miss" prospect in Hollywood, has fallen so far out of favor that the best he can do these days for a lead role is a film like Deep Rising, and his inability to create a charismatic or interesting figure here may sink whatever is left of his sputtering career." - James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS The Phantom (1996) "Treat Williams, resembling Howard Hughes in his heyday, draws the villain's assignment, a role that, as written, never settles comfortably among the traditional elements: genius gone wrong, nastiness (here raised once to vicious sadism) and real wit." - Lawrence Van Gelder, THE NEW YORK TIMES "Treat Williams gets the only funny lines as the villainous industrialist Xander Drax." - Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE "Treat Williams has an opportunity to ham things up as the villain Drax, but that's the problem: the hamming it up. The villains these days are reduced to over the top, world domination type plots, so lame (but yet so far reaching) that they're doomed to fail. It's in the script." - Ryan A, EFILMCRITIC "But one thing I know for sure is that virtually every cast member is overshadowed by the wild performance given by Treat Williams. Folks, forget Jack Nicholson's Joker, Jim Carrey's the Riddler, or even Frank Langella's Skeletor. I have seen the epitome of perfectly-drawn, scenery-chewing, over-the-top bad guys, and he is Xander Drax, a truly intriguing, power-hungry individual who fills up the screen and provides a hilariously interesting distraction from the banality Zane brings to the Phantom." - Adam J. Hakari, THE SNACK BAR "Treat Williams does his darndest as nasty Xander Drax, but is still pallid in comparison to other movie meanies with unlimited power on their agendas." - Jim Byerly, HBO ONLINE Mulholland Falls (1996) "But it does give audiences a chance to see Treat Williams as a menacing yes-man in the military hierarchy..." - Peter Stack, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "The one concession to humor: casting Treat Williams as a cowboy colonel who looks strikingly like Oliver North." - Mike Clark, USA TODAY "As Tibbs' insanely-devoted bodyguard and factotum, Williams does nothing more than a straight version of Dr. Strangelove's General Jack D. Ripper, and it is about as interesting as one might expect." - Carrie Gorringe, NITRATE ONLINE The Late Shift (1996) "The performers are terrific, especially Kathy Bates as Leno's abrasive producer, Treat Williams as Michael Ovitz..." - Doug Pratt, DVD LASER REVIEW Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) "Treat Williams is wildly energetic as Bill, a nutcase with an itchy trigger finger. Williams chews on the scenery a little, delivering lines like "I'm Godzilla and you're Japan!" with suitable gusto." - James Berardinelli, REEL VIEWS "Even in this impressive group Treat Williams stands out for the bravado of his performance as unstable hoodlum Critical Bill, so named because he leaves everyone he meets in critical condition. A mortuary driver introduced using a corpse as a punching bag ("I haven't touched a live person in years," he boasts), Critical Bill has a guileless, almost boyish quality that coats his psychopathic actions with an eerie calm. It is a tasty character and Williams makes just as much of it as John Travolta did in a similar career-reviving turn in 'Pulp Fiction'." - Kenneth Turan, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES "And Critical Bill (a killingly funny and frightening Treat Williams) is a short-fused psycho beyond all rehabilitation. " - Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE "Yeah, it's somewhat fun to watch Treat Williams beat up a corpse and piss in a milk bottle, but such golden nuggets are few and far between." - Scott Weinburg, EFILMCRITIC Things J. Edgar Hoover (1987) (TV) "Williams makes the effort to become Hoover, but his makeup is often distracting and he never loosens up. " - Doug Pratt, LASERDISC REVIEW Prince of the City (1981) "...Treat Williams was superb as Ciello..." - CHAINSAW FODDER "Yet, Treat Williams, who plays Ciello, is an excellent (and tragically underrated) actor who manages to give arguments to those interpretation with his powerful performances in each of Ciello's incarnations, whether he is arrogant cocky policeman, loving husband and father, loyal friend or pathetic valium-addicted weakling who would do anything to save his skin." - Dragan Antulov, REC.ARTS.MOVIES.REVIEWS "Director Sidney Lumet, whose repertoire of 28 films includes Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Pawnbroker, Equus, and Serpico, draws a top caliber performance out of Treat Williams as Danny Ciello. " - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH