.......starring Mel Gibson.
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I generally enjoy Mel's movies and the depth of performance he gives in them.
And I thought this was a solid Gibson performance and a decent conspiracy/action movie.
Imagine a possible follow up to "Silkwood" with Cher and Kurt Russell, if Mel were cast as Meryl Streep's nuclear worker character's truth seeking father after her death, while somewhat recycling the "I only want exactly what you owe me" dude that Gibson played in "Payback."
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Mel always does revenge and/or devotion to duty very well, whether he's Braveheart, Mad Max, a cop buddy of Danny Glover's, an embattled Army air mobile colonel in Vietnam, an Australian British soldier on the Gallipoli peninsula or a Revolutionary War patriot/father.
And as the producer/director/writer of "Apocalypto," he once again vividly showed us how a protagonist who's in the right and keeps a'coming (or, in that movie, keeps a'running) is always a man to be reckoned with.
This movie has the bloody violence and the side switching suspense of Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," plus the layered nuance Gibson showed in "Signs" or "The River."
I enjoyed it and recommend it being worth a ticket or a rental, if you enjoy Mel's movie roles and the sanguine realism often shown in his flicks.
In fact, watching it at home with subtitles should help you better understand what Ray Winstone is saying in his British accent.
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I generally enjoy Mel's movies and the depth of performance he gives in them.
And I thought this was a solid Gibson performance and a decent conspiracy/action movie.
Imagine a possible follow up to "Silkwood" with Cher and Kurt Russell, if Mel were cast as Meryl Streep's nuclear worker character's truth seeking father after her death, while somewhat recycling the "I only want exactly what you owe me" dude that Gibson played in "Payback."
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Mel always does revenge and/or devotion to duty very well, whether he's Braveheart, Mad Max, a cop buddy of Danny Glover's, an embattled Army air mobile colonel in Vietnam, an Australian British soldier on the Gallipoli peninsula or a Revolutionary War patriot/father.
And as the producer/director/writer of "Apocalypto," he once again vividly showed us how a protagonist who's in the right and keeps a'coming (or, in that movie, keeps a'running) is always a man to be reckoned with.
This movie has the bloody violence and the side switching suspense of Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," plus the layered nuance Gibson showed in "Signs" or "The River."
I enjoyed it and recommend it being worth a ticket or a rental, if you enjoy Mel's movie roles and the sanguine realism often shown in his flicks.
In fact, watching it at home with subtitles should help you better understand what Ray Winstone is saying in his British accent.
