Last year's Best Picture winner, directed by and starring Ben Affleck. Affleck the actor gives a downright cloudy performance, as if his mind were on something else...my guess is he's unable to pat his head and rub his tummy at the same time. Affleck the director fares slightly better, assembling a great cast (particularly Brian Cranston and Alan Arkin) and just playing the action without showing off too much (although he does slip in a beefcake shot of himself). I suppose he should've been nominated. Perhaps the Academy still has nightmares that they gave Kevin Costner an Oscar for
Dances With Wolves? A good, solid movie.
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