Word: benicio
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...third tale features the fantastic Clive Owen as Dwight, yet another mentally-addled hero. Dwight is chasing crooked cop Jackie Boy, who is played with gleeful and gravelly-voiced creepiness by Benicio del Toro. Watching the two foils interact—Dwight as the shining protector of women, Jackie-boy as the sinister beater of barmaids—is another of the film’s great interplays. In a wry sequence guest-directed by Quentin Tarantino, the half-decapitated Jackie Boy taunts a hallucinating Dwight...
...play Guevara. "Could it be anybody else?" he asks. "Gael is the most visceral, talented and mature actor of his generation." Others have played the revolutionary onscreen: Omar Sharif in a much-reviled 1969 biopic; Antonio Banderas alongside Madonna's Eva Perón in Evita; and, soon, Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming Che. They all look the part and get to gaze intensely, speak rousingly, and wave a gun - all film-friendly signals of impassioned freedom fighting. But the pre-revolutionary Motorcycle Diaries calls for naïveté, not intensity, and slowly dawning certainty instead...
...Motorcycle Diaries, the first of two movies about Ernesto (Che) Guevara (starring Gael Garcia Bernal, below), opens in the U.S. next month; the second, Che (with Benicio del Toro), will follow next year. They have sparked another batch of commercial tributes to the icon of '60s rebellion...
...Mulholland Dr. But this time it's for real. As a recovering drug addict who suffers a brutal shock, Watts must navigate between numbness and steely rage, mourning and the stirrings of a romantic interest that seems the worst form of betrayal. While co-stars Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro get to strut and spume, Watts has to implode. She does it with a heartrending delicacy and power. To watch her here is to see America grieving...
...tragedy leads her into a self-destructive bout with drugs and depression. Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) is always seconds away from cardiac failure and he desperately clings to any hope for life even as he takes long, painful drags from countless cigarettes. Then there’s Jack Jordan (Benicio del Toro), an ex-con whose fanatical love for Jesus—an obsession which reformed his criminal ways—will be challenged by the car crash. The lives of all three characters will converge at both a physical and emotional level, yielding brutally frank glimpses at death...