Worthington Heights
The one thing I find encouraging about Man on a Ledge (Summit, 1.13.12) is that the director, Asgar Leth, delivered a killer doc five years ago called Ghosts of Cite Soleil. The two things that give me concern are (a) Pablo Fejnves‘ heard-it-before, on-the-nose dialogue (“I am an innocent man!”) and (b) the fact that it looks and feels like a typical standard-issue urban thriller — i.e., the kind that tends to be released in January or February.
Ghosts of Cite Soleil is about two pistol-packing Haitian brothers who ran slum gangs during the final months of Jean Bertrand Aristide‘s presidency, and how things got worse for them after Aristide was deposed.
After seeing it in March ’06, I wrote that “I now see Haiti as less of a Ground Zero for abstract political terror and more of a place where people on the bottom rung are trying to live and breathe and create their own kind of life-force energy as a way of waving away the constant hoverings of doom. In short, this excellent 88-minute film adds recognizable humanity to a culture that has seemed more lacking in hope and human decency than any other on earth.”
This looks GODAWFUL bland.
Worthingon is to acting what American Idol singers are to music. With each role he makes me wonder just WHO the Hollywood exec is that keeps pushing him as a star. IT’S A CONSPIRACY!!!
If I didn’t know he was Australian, I’d swear he was Canadian.
Worthington growing out a full Liotta mullet is an encouraging step.
Two words:
WORTHINGTON POWER.
The God of All Actors.
The script for this was beyond awful. Generic does not even begin to describe it. There was literally NOTHING about this script that was interesting in the least. Just awful. It’s times like those where you realize Hollywood is a fucking joke of epic proportions, a place where talent is rarely rewarded, and where the mystery of why certain things get made gets hazier and hazier. I actually went in for a meeting on this cause the studio was looking for a rewrite. I basically had to tell the truth and say to start over almost from scratch cause it was just so bland. Needless to say, I didn’t land the gig. Worked out for the best as I wound up making a boatload writing some awful racing video game.
Spoiler alert: the twist is…..get ready for it…..his ex-partner turned on him and worked for Ed Harris all along!!! Oooooh, didn’t see that one coming.
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