Law vs Fiennes, Hurt and Kingsley

Dom Hemingway seems to be another in a line of arty/luvvie/posh actors playing tough aggressive, psychotic thugs in recent times.
In the last couple of years we've had Tom Hardy playing hardman Charles Bronson and James McAvoy playing a psycho cop in Filth (both very much in the vein of Law's Dom Hemingway character)
but the full-on-luvvie-goes-hard-gangster stakes had belonged to Ben Kinglsey in Sexy Beast and he held this sort of wordy, neurotic, foul-mouthed, aggressive gangster character as his own until Ralph Fiennes came along and did a similar turn in In Bruges. Then you have John Hurt doing it in 44 Inch Chest.
I loved Sexy Beast but I REALLY loved In Bruges - a brilliant film. 44 Inch Chest not so much, I was left a little bit disinterested by it. Bronson had a fantastic central performance from Hardy but was basically too clever and arty, and the weirdness distracted from the great acting. And Filth well I loved the book but as much as McAvoy was better than I thought he would be in a role I thought he coldn't've played, it wasn't really a great film, it was just ok.
Jude Law who of all the actors above I like the least starts the film annoying me but as it went on I thought he was great in the role and it was a good turn by him.
I would take mix and match elements from all the above films and actors and make one great film.
In Bruges is the best of the lot but as excellent an acotr Ralph Fiennes is sadly he isn't in it enough which leaves the real brilliance in the film resting on the surprisingly brilliant Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.




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