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Who's performance was best: Hanks, Newman or Law?


I think Jude Law actually gave the best performance of the three, despite the fact that newman and hanks are in the class of best actors ever. Jude Law played the creepy villain role perfectly, giving me the heebie jeebies. Although both hanks and law played despicable hitmen, I hated law's character and hoped for his demise.

Of course, hanks and newman were great too. "i'm glad it's you" is one of my favorite lines ever in one of my favorite scenes ever.

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1. Newman - love the scene where he demands a sincere apology from Connor, and the scene "I curse the day you were ever born! I curse it!!", and of course the "I'm glad it's you" scene.

2. Hanks - could have been first. Such a consummate professional and so seamless how he transitions from role to role.

3. Craig - played a fairly complex character who had motivations, someone who was being groomed to inherit his father's "business" but still very much under his father's thumb.

4. Law - played his role well, but felt his character was rather one dimensional.

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