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Yet more proof Hardy is an overrated actor

posted 4 years ago by Filmmania (57)
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Everyone is seemingly blaming the movie Capone and the director and the other actors and the script, but few people are actually blaming Tom Hardy.

What is it with this guy. He made one good movie, Bronson, and since then his career has been a catalogue of trash acting and films.

Take Capone. Hardy's face says it all. He is incapable of any other facial expression other than looking gormless. In Capone, he is caked in make up. He still looks like Hardy. He's still boring as Hardy. Nothing like Capone in appearance or character. Utter dross.

Any actor worth his salt should have realised Hardy as Capone would be a case of being miscast. Hardy SHOULD have realised his performance wasn't up to it. But he didn't. There are many actors who have quit movies after starting filming, because they realised it wasn't working. Yet Hardy stumbled on. He couldn't see it. He couldn't see he was dire in this film.

Awful.

[–] BourbonKing (5647) 4 years ago

Hardy's a "dick actor" if you get my meaning. He says that Gary Oldman's his hero and I can see why, but he doesn't partake in Oldman's expert craft at subtlety. I remember Hardy the first time I saw him in Layer Cake and he didn't leave much of an impression. I then saw him again in Wuthering Heights and he seemed capable but not remarkable. It's in his physical menacing roles as a two dimensional badass that he exudes real presence.

The funny thing with this movie is that he looked more like an aged up version of James Remar's character of Dutch Schultz from The Cotton Club. Another baddy character that was 2-dimensional but interesting to watch, but in Remar's role Dutch still had all of his menacing faculties.

[–] TheArgentinian (6468) 4 years ago

The script gives him nothing to work with.

[–] johnmarti59 (2356) 3 years ago

After that review, I'll check out the movie.

[–] captainbucky (15252) 3 years ago

Me too . Love that Tom

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16250) 3 years ago

Hardy is the most interesting thing about it.

[–] GingerbreadPimp (1767) 3 years ago

I don't blame Hardy for this being a dumpster fire. Trank is the one to blame here.