+3
Why would Prisoner's get an Oscar Nomination?
I finally saw this movie a few days ago, and I really enjoyed it, it was a good thriller, kept me guessing, yada yada....but I can't see why it would be up for any Oscar Nominations. Someone mentioned that Jake Gyllenhaal's addition of twitches into his character was a real step up in his performance...well, yeah it is, he's typically pretty god awful(my opinion). For me, I felt his "twitching," was extremely distracting, not because it was visually distracting, but because there was so little substance to his character (the script and dialogue make post haste of that) that the only thing this poor actor could think to ad lib in order to establish some background to his character was a series of harsh twitch/winks (aka twinchies)......in order to make the audience think he is either possibly folding under the pressure because of the nature of the case, or because he hasn't lost any case previous to that, or because he's a" rogue" soul (denoted by tattoos as well as his conflicts with his chief in which they always show Jake standing and towering over his superiors showing his internal power struggle with authority), or is it because he's caught up in the bureaucratic nuisances of the office (the fact the couldn't hold alex jones for an additional 24hrs as well as the "tail" being removed from Jones's house....which btw without these two events taking place the entire story could not unfold, to me I felt there was not enough tension on these two particular moments, because whether the audience was following the narrative of the Jackman or Gyllenhaal character, the moments were crucial to each man's story arch).....in short I didn't know what to think of Jake's twitches.
I enjoyed the story, the turns it took, I'm not a big Gyllenhaal fan or Jackman fan really at all, but they got the job done.....The idea of the story got to me more then the actors did, i mean Paul Dano can act (There will be blood) and he was very under utilized in his role.....7/10.
__________________
Silencio