Streep = Bloody Awful

I love Liam Neeson; that's the sole reason I even watched this movie. I've never been a fan of Meryl Streep, but it's been more passive than anything. Ie, I'd never NOT watch a movie just because she was in it, but I believe that's changed. She was absolutely terrible in this movie. Just terrible. Neeson was the only one who didn't look like he was in pain during the filming. Streep might as well have been filming a documentary on How Not to Act. I've never seen someone so absolutely unbearably unbelievable in a role. For someone of her caliber, and I use the term loosely in this instance, have acted so poorly? I didn't believe her character for a minute. I wanted to hit her everytime she pretended to be heartsick and overwrought. "What if you destroyed the evidence that proved his innocence?!" Yes! Because innocent, non-guilty people RUN FROM THE LAW!! I wanted to shake some sense into her at every turn.

Awful. Just absolutely horribly awful. I wish they'd had someone else in her role; the movie might have been better. As it was, Neeson was the only saving grace (in my opinion).

* I think I blurred some lines in distinguishing between her character and her acting. I hated her character...she was flat and mewling and whiny. I despised her, and if she'd been my mother, I'd have run, too. I certainly wouldn't have sat around and waited for her to go all Brutus on me in front of the grand jury. Her misplaced self-confidence and smug satisfaction that she did what was "right" absolutely infuriated me. I'm not saying I believe the other way was the way to go, but I hated her actions.

That being said, Streep's acting made an already unbearable character that much worse. Ugh.