and particularly for Liev, who I consider sadly underrated and -used in most cases.
The movie has its share of missteps—almost all in places where the scriptwriter or the director didn't trust the story to carry its own power, and of course it does—but Liev Schreiber is not one of them. I have loved him ever since I saw him in, God help me, Kate & Leopold, where his immature, amateur, not-really-an-asshole ex-boyfriend was the best thing in the film aside from Hugh Jackman accompanying himself on "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General," but this is the first time I've seen him in a role that I thought gave him anywhere near the breadth he can command. Daniel Craig isn't a misstep, either. For anyone who still thinks he can play only handsome thugs (one of whom happens to be James Bond), Defiance should be an effective rebuke. But he wasn't the one I thought was going to melt a hole in the screen.
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The movie has its share of missteps—almost all in places where the scriptwriter or the director didn't trust the story to carry its own power, and of course it does—but Liev Schreiber is not one of them. I have loved him ever since I saw him in, God help me, Kate & Leopold, where his immature, amateur, not-really-an-asshole ex-boyfriend was the best thing in the film aside from Hugh Jackman accompanying himself on "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General," but this is the first time I've seen him in a role that I thought gave him anywhere near the breadth he can command. Daniel Craig isn't a misstep, either. For anyone who still thinks he can play only handsome thugs (one of whom happens to be James Bond), Defiance should be an effective rebuke. But he wasn't the one I thought was going to melt a hole in the screen.