Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on November 10, 2012 at 08:10:07

In Reply to: RE: Bardem's over-the-top, camped up performance set this one back . . . posted by mr grits on November 09, 2012 at 17:01:35

softer, nicer guy emasculates the first two films careful crafting of him as a brutal killing machine.
And I'd disagree strongly w/your view of the end: trite as hell and enough w/the fake FX. It's hard to believe they can afford to have a second-unit in Malaysia (or wherever it was) and Macau and not find a REAL Scottish castle on the moors?
It was very poorly written, both as action and as drama, and Albert Finney: what the fuck????
Who cared about him? No relationship was pre-developed, at all.
How about the waste of Fiennes?
And Bardem was just silly, not scary at all.
Let's face it: execrable writing AND pathetic direction.
Sam Mendes is NOT an action director.
Or much of one, at all.