How has he got away with it?
Sometimes you come across an actor who is so bad, you sit and wonder how on earth they have managed to get away with it so long. I know Keanu Reeves gets a lot of flack, but I honestly believe Sam Neil is one of the worst actors working today. He is incredibly wooden and has the range of a tea-spoon, something that is especially exposed when he somehow manages to get cast opposite actors with real talent (see A Cry in the Dark with Meryl or The Piano with Holly Hunter) where he gets blown off the screen. I understand he's Australian and those casting directors are familiar with him and give him jobs, thats fine, just not in some of our best films and certainly not with some of our best actors. He does him and everyone else no favours.
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