If he didnt win a razzie for this he should have. I coulnt stop thinking of how many character actors out there could have nailed this performance. He was waaay out of his element and laughably bad at times. Otherwise...fantastic film.
shareOhh. Well, after seeing a lot people's negative opinion on his performance, I'm a bit scared to share my opinion, but who's going to read this anyway...
I thought Sutherland was brilliant. And, forgive me, but I think he should have gotten a supporting Oscar nomination for this role. He played the paranoid and shaky doctor to perfection and it really helped the movie.
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Last films:
The Impossible. 9/10
Django Unchained. 9.5/10
Silver Linings Playbook. 10/10
Sutherland is great in this film, cant be faulted
shareI agree and disagree. While I think he did a good job, it could have been cast better. I think it was his age which threw me. It felt like the character should have been played by an older actor.
Still love the film, though.
I agree with Wunderwaffe. Great performance.
The ending, when he appears in Murdoch's memories... fantastic
I agree with the OP.. What a terrible performance.
shareHe did a great job. It was congruous with the off-kilter atmosphere the film was cultivating. He was a real focal point.
You're not meant to find everything about him believable, that's the point. He's the character with all the answers, but we're supposed to find him dubious. The entire piece weighed heavily on whether or not Sutherland could communicate that. He more than succeeded.
Yeah I thought Sutherland did a fine job with a tough role. Johnny Depp would have just done another one of his impressions of Keith Richards.
shareI thought he was just about the right kind of unhinged. There is no reason for him to act normal because of the things he knows, the things he do and the fact that most of his social interaction was from the aliens.
He is really a part of what makes the city an uncanny place.
I thought Sutherland did an outstanding job on the acting. How were you expecting Dr. Daniel P. Schreber to act that was different from his actions?
shareI'd
expect
a
different
approach
to
his...very
frustratingly
staccato
speech
patterns.
Such
traumatic
psychological
burdens
can...be
portrayed
in
more
viewable
ways!
Don't
you
think?
He was playing a guy who had been tortured by aliens who made him erase his own mind and then repeatedly implant memories in dead people night after night!
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Really though it wasn't his actions, it was his voice. He paused after practically every word like that asthmatic kid from Malcolm in the Middle. It seemed like he had asthma the whole time to me, so it lightened the mood, which detracted from the tone of the film.
shareI thought this film was pretty cool but every time KS spoke I was instantly out of the movie. He.spoke.like.someone.reading.aloud.from.something.written.with.punctuation.marks.in-between.every.god.damn.word.
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How would _you_ speak if aliens had kidnapped you and forced you to erase your own memories and then made you implant memories into a city of people every night? The only times I got yanked out of this movie was whenever any of the Aussie actors opened their mouths and tried for a 'noo yoik' accent - and totally failed!