Winona + Helena!


Can't wait for this.

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Helena BC was really good in this, well I haven't seen her do anything bad to be honest. I find it a little far fetched that Bill Nighy seems to be attracting women far younger than himself but, I am willing to suspend disbelief.

Winona R, on the other hand - not so good. I realise that she is supposed to be representing an emotional wreck but, her facial contortions were distracting. It looked like 'distress by numbers'.

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Well, everything she said was coupled with eyebrows moving up and down, sometimes together and sometimes separately, or else they were knitted solemnly. Her head wobbled from side to side and up and down. Sometimes less is more.

Look, it might be just me! I thought she was a bit hammy.

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She always looked like she was drunk, which her character was. I thought she did a fantastic job. All the women fall for Johnny because it's easy to see he's a nice guy.




"And the same black line that was drawn on you, Was drawn on me, And now it's drawn me in"

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hare & nighy! got me tuned in. only wish stephen dillane could get involved in this series. he has the right timbre, training, like nighy for hare's lines. the one about bad breath for whistleblowers had me chucklin'.



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I am about the same age as both of them and I would leave my husband for Bill Nighy ......he is fabulous in every way!!

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emotional wreck and drunk ---- she was trying to flirt with Worricker to manipulate him, but she was always half in the bag

did you ever see a drunk try to flirt when you were stone cold sober, the drunks come off badly

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HBC was amazing as always. Winona Ryder was... completely out of her depth as always. The damsel in distress in Page Eight was Rachel Weisz. Quite a downgrade.

Everything about her was over the top and fake. The worst was certainly her drawling low gravel voice. I'm guessing that was her way of sounding "damaged" and mysterious but that was pretty bad.

The movie in general was way less successful at many things than Page Eight was, partly due to the supporting cast but Ryder was by far the worst of it.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

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Winona Ryder was... completely out of her depth as always.


I've followed Ryder's career for years and I've never seen her out of her depth in anything! I thought she was great!

But to each his or her own!

"What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?"

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I thought Winona did an admirable portrayal of someone about to crack.

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Actually I thought Winona was pretty good portraying a neurotic case right on the edge. Anyway Rachel Weisz is a tough act to follow. Another complication is that Winona looks a bit like Rachel, and I found this distracting. BTW whatever did happen to the Rachel Weisz character? She just disappeared from the story without explanation, which is improbable given how taken she and Bill were with each other.

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apparently a woman must be extremely pale to be in this series --- unless you are a maid

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Rachel used the evidence Johnny obtaigned for her to publicly humiliate the British government over it’s assertion that her brother was a terrorist intent on throwing a bomb, rather than a protester waving a flag. Despite the mutual attraction between them, I seem to recall Johnny telling her he was going to have to be a fugitive, and they wouldn’t be seeing each other again.

By the way, I thought it was a delightful touch, when he threw the top secret document in the trash at the airport.

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Winona's worst performance I think. Just something 'off' about it, even the accent seems off, as a Brit it sounds like a non-American having a go. She can't even convincingly smoke in this.

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