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...John Cusack, meanwhile, imbues Dimitri with a sympathetic glow that we rarely see in animated leading men. He is fascinating in his idiosyncrasies. Stubborn, grumbling and not particularly heroic, his character palette exhibits strong emotional development...
...faithful. Midnight was a big book, with lots of great stories. That kind of thing can't be compressed. And, as one of the faithful, I agree. Indeed, I wish more of the movie had been devoted to those great stories instead of long, lingering shots of John Cusack's pretty face...
...movie, this smart, self-aware narrator has been excised and replaced with the baby-faced John Cusack, and the results are disastrous. Midnight is one of those rare films that cries out for a voice-over, but Eastwood and his writers seem to have consciously avoided that course of action. Instead, they give us John Kelso (Cusack), an idealistic young writer from New York who comes to Savannah to write an essay on a Christmas party and ends up getting involved in Williams' murder trial. By embroiling Kelso in the plot, the refreshing detachment of Berendt's narrative is lost...
...hustlers, drag queens and witches. Berendt's narrator revels unrepentantly in Savannah's decadence and its culture of closeted scandal. He falls in love with the city's roguishness, its peculiar brand of dark but endearing degeneracy cloaked in gentility. In short, he is nothing like Cusack's dippy, sententious young idealist. The closest he comes to romance is a date with a drag queen. And he certainly bears no resemblance to the late Elvis Presley, whom Cusack and his sideburns are trying their damnedest to impersonate...
...this Midnight is worth seeing for fabulous performances like these, not to mention the beautiful footage of Savannah, the uncredited star of the show. Best to sit back and soak up the Southern sun (which Eastwood manages to capture quite beautifully), then steadily tune out everything Cusack says and does. What will emerge is the real spirit of Berendt's Savannah, simultaneously anarchic and genteel--a cocktail potent enough to survive even the worst ravages of Hollywood hackery...