‘Lions for Lambs’
Lions for Lambs (Nov. 9) It doesn’t get much more Oscar-bait-y than Meryl Streep starring in a Robert Redford-directed political drama about the war in Afghanistan and its implications in Washington and the world of academia. So how come the trailer plays so stiff and turgid? Lines like, “What is relevant is the implementation of a new strategy” don’t help, but the thing that’s really bogging me down is Tom Cruise’s performance as a powerful U.S. senator. Take his big, hoo-hah question to Streep’s reporter: “Do you wanna win the war on terror? Yes or no? This is the quintessential yes-or-no question of our time. Yes or no?” Doesn’t he deliver this in almost the same exact tone that he once asked Matt Lauer, “Do you know what Aderol is? Do you know Ritalin? Do you know now that Ritalin is a street drug? Do you understand that?” Maybe my perception’s been thrown off by the photo of Cruise dirty dancing with Katie Holmes in that copy of Us that I accidentally bought last night — yes, accidentally! it can happen! — but I can’t take “Serious Cruise” seriously anymore.
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