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...movie about “cool” needs a central figure that speaks slower than everyone else; as John Travolta notes in Be Cool: “If you’re important enough, they’ll wait for you.” Think Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects, Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or Travolta himself in Get Shorty...
...you’re playing me,” Kevin Spacey, himself playing Bobby Darin, says to a child actor portraying a younger Bobby early on in Beyond...
...begins this biopic, which Spacey wrote, directed and starred in—a strange tale of legendary singer and entertainer Bobby Darin making a movie of his own life, retelling and narrating along...
...implication from this and the other scene is obvious: Spacey is Darin, Spacey knows him better than anyone else ever has. And while his acting is usually good, his singing phenomenal and his respect for Darin obvious, there is something essential lacking in this film...
Fans of both Spacey and Darin should, and almost certainly will, see this film, if for no other reason than that it shows a different side of both of them—Darin as a conflicted man plagued by his past and uncertain about his future and Spacey as a confident and brash entertainer born to be a star. For what it’s worth, each brings something out in the other...