Brad Cooper does not have enough real acting experience to put in a good performance in anything, he is typical "celebrity Americana", meaning people love him because of the hype, not for his performances. In American Sniper his performance was wooden, he fails to show any emotion in what was suppose to be a very difficult emotional situation, so too, was his performance in Silver Linings Playbook....again he fails to show appropriate emotion just gets excited and talks fast. He is not meant to be a serious actor, he can't even keep a straight face, he's always smirking! This is the guy who became a celebrity because of being in the Hangover movie series....guaranteed to get the blockbuster status, but not any kind of real actor.
Jennifer Lawrence on the other hand is great! her performance in Winters Bone, one of her first major films, was terrific, her emotions are right there, she is young yet, but having seen everything she has done thus far, I see her doing more drama in the future, as she matures, her performances will be something to see, watch for it! I particularly like how she handled the ditzy broad in American Hustle, having lived through that era, the movie was realistic and I knew lots of women like her, Jennifer L. Was spot on there!
This movie falls down because of the director and the camera work. If the movie script was nearly the same as the book, then it can only be the directors fault as to the tone and direction the actors take in the movie, if this director fails to get to the nitty gritty scary disturbing behaviour in the script is because she doesn't know how to get it from the performers, or maybe she gave up, when facing the smirking Cooper.....!
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