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Title: Overpenned and outlawed
Review: I think the responsibility for this failure lies with mainly 3 people.First of all, Sean Penn, whom I respect as a great actor (e.g. Mystic River, 21 Grams), but not in this terrible performance. His portrait of a populist demagogue is just too much over the top towards a caricature of Chaplin's great dictator.Second, the script writer. It can not be that easy to foul up an essentially good story so badly. There is no narrative drive.Third, this must be Jude Law's worst film ever. He is not an obvious miscast, one can initially believe his character, the young man from an elite background and his mutual attraction with the vulgar politician. But in the course of the plot, the motivation of his character loses ground, and Law is at a loss for adequate facial expressions. He makes a mess of it.Hopkins and Winslet are doing fine, but why are 3 English actors needed for a Louisiana story?
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