"Safe House"

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• Michael Adams says:

  February 10, 2012 at 8:06 am

  Ryan Reynolds is good in DICK (as Haldeman’s son?), but it’s been down­hill from there. Totally lack­ing in charisma.

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• Joe Gross says:

  February 10, 2012 at 10:37 am

  I would love to see Sean William Scott in one of the Ryan Reynolds-ish “dra­mat­ic” parts, as I am one of about eight people on the plan­et (not includ­ing Mr. Scott’s agent?) who thinks he is one decent role away from being a per­fectly good dra­mat­ic actor.

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• Tom Russell says:

  February 10, 2012 at 10:49 am

  Well, THE NINES isn’t great shakes as a film, but as a show­case for Reynolds as an act­or, his cha­risma, and his range, it cer­tainly (at least par­tially) reversed my dis­missive opin­ion of him.

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• That Fuzzy Bastard says:

  February 10, 2012 at 12:26 pm

  Washington is so good in Spike Lee’s movies, but too many oth­er dir­ect­ors just use him as “dude with good voice”. I’m not sure he’ll ever top that incred­ible per­form­ance in HE GOT GAME (that moment where he just opens and closes his SRO door and laughs!), though INSIDE MAN is pretty great.

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• Bettencourt says:

  February 10, 2012 at 1:06 pm

  I agree with Mr. Russell about THE NINES, and with Mr. Gross about Seann William Scott, who was quite good in the under­rated THE PROMOTION and the ghastly SOUTHLAND TALES.

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• AdenDreamsOf says:

  February 10, 2012 at 3:07 pm

  I often get the feel­ing while watch­ing a Denzel Washington movie that he has no interest in what the oth­er per­formers are say­ing to him. The impres­sion I usu­ally get is that he seems to try and one up who­ever he is per­form­ing with which becomes a way of act­ing at his cast mates instead of act­ing with them. I do think he can be skilled act­or, but for my per­son­al taste he often strikes me as try­ing to hog the scene.

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