Niki N. Phaser

Sometimes, actors are just cast in the wrong role. It’s not all their fault, it’s also their agents, the director, the producer, whatever. We, as audience, shouldn’t care about these things, but if the final product is affected, then we start blaming the actor. And that’s pretty much what I’m doing here. Killshot, the John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) take on an Elmore Leonard novel, was an ok movie, despite being criticized for more than one thing. What was a real turn off with this one is Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s performance as a psycho hillbilly criminal. The constantly raised eyebrow, the unconvincing diabolical grin, the loudness and his lines (not his fault) made Gordon-Levitt seem more like a Jim Carrey SNL parody of the Billy Joe’s and Bobby Ray’s from Chuck Norris movies from the 80′s. It just didn’t work, it was fake — acting that you see is acting. Sorry, Joseph. The point of this article is not to diss this actor. I wouldn’t have written this, if I hadn’t been impressed by some of the other work done by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, like The Lookout, Brick (an interesting movie that needed a bit more South Park humour) or, what I consider his best so far, Mysterious Skin. The new (500) Days of Summer also seems promising.

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