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Det. Tracy Atwood(Demi beep role or acting??

posted 13 years ago by supernatural_within
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I havent seen much of Demi Moore's acting skills,but from wat i saw in this movie Det. Tracy Atwood is a moronic-gud-for-nothing-cop...i mean she got no skills at all...and either her character was not written up to the mark or her acting skills are the worst...somehow it made the Det. look a lousy and idiotic cop to be hunting for 2 serial killers,i mean the scenes involing her abduction and gun fight with Meeks...wtf...she doesnt crouch and keeps shooting WHILE directly comming in the path of the gunfire by the other two ....holy hole in a do-nut wats up with tht??...any1 else felt this way??

[–] monstermayhem32 13 years ago

I thought Demi Moore was pretty good in the film.

[–] VAndolini 13 years ago

I like her, but I think sometimes she tries too hard in some of her roles and it shows. She is certainly a much better actor than her soon (I hope) to be ex-husband.

[–] rixrex 12 years ago

She was really bad in this one, playing a cliched and overacted character.

But even that bad is still way better than her ex, and it's not Bruce Willis.

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[–] thomvic 12 years ago

I actually found Atwood's character and subplot really interesting in the film. I think Moore was pretty decent in the role and I think she pulled the role off quite well.

Her character was driven by a need to succeed where everything else in her life has failed miserably, so it's like the only high she can get is through her work to have any sort of fulfillment and satisfaction of success - this is apparent when she says at the end of the film her reason for becoming a cop in the first place.

Moore can be a good actress if she picks the right role. Her best performance was probably in Ghost which was back in the 90's.

[–] riverwalk 12 years ago

''I think Moore was pretty decent in the role and I think she pulled the role off quite well... Moore can be a good actress if she picks the right role''

Agreed I never got all the hate for moore,i think she was great in the film and can give a good performance in some of her better movies.

[–] thomvic 12 years ago

Glad to hear someone thinks the same. I'll admit that Moore has made some bad choices in her career but you can't say that she can't act.

[–] riverwalk 12 years ago

I think if she hadn't done striptease then her career would have fared much better,i think it was that which destroyed her reputation. Suddenly she had gone from respectful actress to a porn star. She cashed in, it was all going pretty well for her up until that point. Considering how good her career was going till that point and the roles she was being headhunted and considered for [forrest gump,while you were sleeping,the English patient] then it always baffles me why she would have went anywhere near a trashy script like striptease. She'd already seen how bad showgirls had done the year before.

[–] RootCookie 11 years ago

Unfortunately, I agree.
1st thing I think of now when I see Demi is her in Striptease.

[–] piahellgrenbrooks 10 years ago

Haven´t people figured that out? Those were the days when the HUGE fixation with ultra toned bodies started- she wanted to have that on film! She made a VERY bad choice out of pure narcissism. She wanted the world to see all of it and this still was a... "real" movie.

[–] cookiela2001 10 years ago

Moore can be a good actress if she picks the right role. Her best performance was probably in Ghost which was back in the 90's.

She is (surprisingly) superb in Mortal Thoughts (1991). And I also thought she was quite good in The Juror (1996).

Nothing else she's done has ever made me think she's especially gifted.

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[–] decoy000 11 years ago

one thing about her, i remember once an armorer said that most actors blink when they fire a gun, one actor who didn't, and therefore looks like he should be firing a gun is clint eastwood. I noticed in this movie meeks blinked big-time in the hallway shoot-out, but demi didn't. therefore i'm happy for her to handle weapons in movies, just give her a smaller one, she makes whatever model of gun she has in this look like the gun from total recall or judge dredd or something.

As for her playing a detective, a big part of her draw in the old days, ghost etc. was her boyishness. I can see why people would cast her in usually male/tough lady roles. I don't think it works here particularly well, there's something super fragile about her body nowadays. but her performance was pretty good.

[–] RootCookie 11 years ago

I really didn’t like her in this.
I don’t know if its just her or the part, but I never believed her. Also the bordering aggressive/dirty cop doesn’t work at all.

I don’t know what it is with Demi, but as soon as I saw her in this I knew I was going to be torn.

[–] Zuider_Zee 11 years ago

Moore and Cook were huge sore spots. Neither one is that capable and both fall short of Costner and Hurt.

[–] generaltsobeef 11 years ago

I think this is just an inherent bias that you, and many now, seem to have.

Neither of them were 'sore spots' in this film, but it is all too easy to hate a persons performance simply because you don't like them as people (in whatever capacity you know them).

[–] Zuider_Zee 11 years ago

Tracy is the most wooden screen performance of Ms. Moore’s career. Looking exhausted and tense, the actress is as expressive as a wax museum effigy. That is not the case with Mr. Costner and Mr. Hurt, who pull out the stops to play a horror-movie tag team. In their scenes together Mr. Costner’s sinister but tortured Earl and Mr. Hurt’s gleefully sociopathic Marshall do a sadomasochistic soft shoe of psychological bullying and whining.

Per The NY Times. I don't find it necessary to seek a critical review of Cook's performance. It was so incredibly bad that time spent looking into it is time wasted. Costner and Hart are the only reasons to watch this movie. Moore and Cook were quite forgettable and the film suffered because of them.

[–] riverwalk 9 years ago

''I think this is just an inherent bias that you, and many now, seem to have.

Neither of them were 'sore spots' in this film, but it is all too easy to hate a persons performance simply because you don't like them as people (in whatever capacity you know them).''

yep, you nailed it-the big reason moore stopped getting the good roles after striptease was because people became biased towards her and no matter if her performances were oscar worthy or complete gold the rot had set in and people stopped respecting her.

They looked at her as defiled and cheap, she was no longer a classy Hollywood starlet but a mere cheapened trashy sell out. I don't mean to sound hasty but that's pretty much the truth. A film like striptease is career suicide for any a list actress,how moore did not see that...

[–] SillyPuddy 11 years ago

I thought the part was great but Demi was all wrong for it. Lindsey Crouse (her boss) would of been much better in the role.

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Det. Tracy Atwood(Demi *beep* role or acting??

Det. Tracy Atwood(Demi beep role or acting??