I don't know if anyone spotted this but there was definitely something weird about his accent. It's like sometimes his British accent pops out and then it doesn't.
sharehis accent was horrible, it kinda ruined a little bit of the movie for me. Only would he sometimes sound like a torontonian [I'm from Toronto myself]
shareI think the whole point is that he has been living in britain for several years and goes back to toronto
shareHe's a British actor putting on a Canadian accent. Just as the actor playing Giles is a Canadian putting on a (terrible) British accent.
It's kind of funny, for you it's Alim's accent that stands out and almost ruins the film. For me it's the numerous terrible fake British accents that almost ruined it for me. All the British accents were ridiculously forced "posh" accents; or at least what American TV seems to think are Posh British accents. And I have NEVER met anyone called Giles. Only a vanishingly small bunch of the ultra rich in the UK call their children such a stupid name! Yet in North American films and TV, if you're British you're called Giles or Roger or Rupert or Tarquin! :D
The casting on this film was a little strange; Brits playing all the Canadian parts and Canadians playing all the British parts.
I know what you mean.
I'm not British, I never even had the pleasure of visiting, and the closest I'll get at this time of my life is watching BBCAmerica.
I'm not British, and even I could tell that EVERYONE'S accent was horribly, horribly off.
Over the decades of watching movies and TV from both sides of the Atlantic I have heard some British actors speaking excellent General American accents. (I wish I could say the same about American actors speaking British accents, but that is SO much more rare.)
And, none of that happened here -- in either direction.
Hey, at least this film did equal disservice by over-stereotyping both Brits and Americans.
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