12 awful performances in brilliant movies, from Hugh Grant to Jake Gyllenhaal
msn.comGangs of New York), to choices that are more controversial (Hugh Grant in Love Actually? Yes, really!)And while you’re here, why not also sample the inverse of this strange occurrence – brilliant performances in otherwise terrible movies…Gyllenhaal is guilty of too much acting in Denis Villeneuve’s grimy child-abduction thriller.
While the other A-listers that surround him (including Hugh Jackman and Viola Davis) bury themselves in grief and rage, Gyllenhaal seems to be in a different film entirely.
He’s all twitches and facial tics, injecting off-putting weirdness in a movie that absolutely doesn’t need it. The Mad Men star adopts a flat affect for this otherwise great franchise reboot.
In fairness to her, the character she’s playing – mutant henchwoman Emma Frost – is written as quippy arm candy and absolutely nothing more, but Jones seems painfully uninterested all the same.
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