Paul Walker has a reputation as a actor so wooden that the only part he’d be at home playing would be Pinocchio. Still, with a director like Clint Eastwood using him in Flags of out Fathers I figured it was time to investigate further.
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The Americans stick it to the English once again; no doubt this was the appeal to Billy Connelly, what self respecting Scotsman could resist a film that portrays the English as bad guys and has a Scot help the French to victory? The film itself is a silly time travel tale that makes little sense (not uncommon in time travel movies) and, thanks to some lacklustre action scenes, gives the viewer far too much time to think. Paul Walker is poor as Connelly’s son but he’s not alone with the only decent performance coming from Anna Friel as a French noblewoman. Scriptwriter Jeff Maguire must take much of the blame, with the actors given some awful dialogue to deliver and Richard Donner shows that even great directors are capable of cooking up some poultry given the right ingredients.
Into The Blue
