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Title: The emperor has no clothes and Sean Penn can't act.
Review: In Penn's defense he is woefully miscast in this film. He is a depressive personality, not the type who could excite the masses.Jude Law is also miscast. He is too self-assured for the crisis of identity the novel's protagonist confronts.The novel has about 700 pages of riveting dialog. The screenplay captures none of it and rather leaves it to the film's composer to elicit an emotional response with overused scoring.I got about 30 minutes into this movie before I finally had to stop it. The offending incident was when the Gandolfini character is exposed in a speech and to underscore this, he falls into a pigpen. A director that would film such an incident should never work again.
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