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...utterly unconvincing. There is always a distance that keeps the audience from connecting with Starks. Pearce never shows why his character is so ready to believe the fortune-teller, nor does he sufficiently demonstrate Starks’ motivation for suddenly deciding to seek out his terrible fate. Many of Pearce??€™s shortcomings are thanks to Fergus’ script, which expects the audience to make far-fetched connections and bestow unearned significance to directionless scenes. For example, Starks’s near-breakdown—in which the character locks himself in a motel room for days with...
...smiling at me. Whoever she is, she sure looks glad to see me—there’s a billboard-wide grin on her face, and she’s practically barreling into my arms. I start to smile back blankly and my mind races like Guy Pearce??€™s in Memento. Do I KNOW this person? Think! Think! Who IS this...
...overstatement. This does nothing to help the performances of the actors. Pearce, riveting in L.A. Confidential and the memorable Memento, turns in a flat performance. What is particularly unfortunate is the fact that his acting in Time Machine raises questions about his versatility. The obsessive, removed quality that made Pearce??€™s performance in Memento so unique has returned in a lukewarm, watered-down form that dovetails nicely with the lukewarm, watered-down quality of the entire film. His portrayal of Hartdegan in Time Machine definitely represents a step down in an otherwise upwardly mobile career...
Perhaps the whole Mike Tyson saga is attributable to a short-term memory deficit like Guy Pearce??€™s in Christopher Nolan’s Academy-snubbed thriller. Perhaps Iron Mike just has no idea what he’s doing at a given point and lives life in brief, incomprehensible bursts. Even a movie plot might not be able to make sense out of Tyson. But then again, maybe it could...
...with no short-term memory (Guy Pearce) whose is plunged into all sorts of trouble because his memory blanks out every so often. The story is told chronologically backwards—beginning with the closing scene ending with the first—in a way that lets viewers feel Pearce??€™s disorientation. Few people walk the earth feeling that confused, but you’ve got to wonder if perhaps Mike Tyson is one of them...
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