![]() ![]() ![]() Eckhart was booed and barracked by women at screenings and Q&As, perhaps because they thought Eckhart was relishing the performance too much. "Evil" is a word used casually in the movies, but he is evil, there's just no other word. Aaron Eckhart plays a boorish corporate executive who sets out to destroy the life of a hearing-impaired woman in his office, by dating her and dumping her - out of pure misogynist hate. People who see this film, and know nothing of Eckhart's career may not know that he made an extraordinary breakthrough in Neil LaBute's satirical nightmare In The Company of Men (1997). Nothing out of the ordinary or interesting about Eckhart here in any way at all. Standard-issue beefcake, albeit an older guy. Can't Mr Wilson sit down to watch Bottle Rocket and resolve to get back to his roots? Aaron Eckhart in Battle: Los Angeles, directed by Jonathan LiebesmanĮckhart plays a Marine sergeant, a straight-up handsome, rugged, all-American male. After some great stuff in Zoolander and Meet the Parents, and some great voice work in the animations Cars and The Fantastic Mr Fox, well, all of his charm seems to have fallen away. Right there is the spark, the fun, the likability and the sheer individuality of Owen Wilson, all the things which gave him his career. For contrast, put on the DVD of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket (1996), an off-the-wall comedy which Anderson co-wrote with Wilson, who co-stars with his brother Luke. But all of Wilson's funky, goofy shtick is nowhere. Wilson has to play a basically nice, married, middle-aged guy who still lusts after women, the sort of role that could go to Kevin James, if you want to play up his corpulence, or maybe Jason Bateman, if disillusion is the important thing. It's a pretty awful comedy, tired, almost contemptuously lazy, without any of the Farrellys' inspired black humour. Owen Wilson in Hall Pass, directed by the Farrelly Brothers ![]()
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