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Depp handles his "blank page" role well, his face as untroubled as a statue's despite the violence he sees. Scenes are intentionally stolen one after the other by cameo players such as John Hurt, Alfred Molina, Crispin Glover and Iggy Pop as the inexplicable transvestite/cannibal Salvatore "Sally" Jenko. In "Dead Man," these unlikely cameos provide a solid, convincing foundation on which the larger drama plays itself...
...show's star and choreographer is Savion Glover, already a seasoned Broadway performer at 22. He made his debut at 12 in Tap Dance Kid, and has since starred in Black and Blue and Jelly's Last Jam. Even granting this list of precocious credits, Glover's style is surprisingly mature. He will doubtless go through life being compared to Fred Astaire, but the link is authentic, not so much stylistically--Glover pounds his feet down, Astaire seemed poised for flight--as in the unique quality of each man's work. Just as it would be impossible to mistake...
Freshman Rose Janowski of the Harvard women's basketball team knows how to spell "tenacity". That was the word that won her the 1988 spelling bee in her hometown of Glover, Vermont...
While the eyes are being ravished, so are the ears. Conductor Jane Glover leads a scintillating performance by unusually nimble-fingered string players and by singers of passionate virtuosity--notably countertenor David Daniels in the title role and soprano Dana Hanchard as his reluctant Turkish prize. What seems at first arcane and distant becomes hypnotically human--opera on a level of taste, imagination and musicality that would do any of the world's most celebrated opera houses proud...
Beyond Bo Tat, jokes and slapstick carry the film a short distance, but between jokes, Dumbo Drop drags its feet. And the scenes where Glover tries to bond with Bo Tat and show off his sensitivity are just awful...