shame they couldnt get any A listers on board
then it could of actually made some money
shareI disagree strongly,i thought the cast was excellent,and the film pretty good,it passed me by,i only caught it on uk tv last night.never heard of it before,id give it a B+ good enough,but if you mean a high budget version with top stars,id bet that would have ended up awful,not to sure why,just felt the film was good gritty and dark.
shareYes, Gary Sinise is definitely A-List in terms of acting ability. I think that's the point the OP was making. But, mind you, had it been Will Smith instead of Gary Sinise, dear Lordy Lord.... It would have made 20 times as much
shareI agree Sinise is an odd choice as far as a leading man for an action, but I was just posting about this in another thread and I really think he's the most appropriately cast hero I've seen yet in a Philip Dick movie. Philip Dick heroes are supposed to be the opposite of the kind of characters played by Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Ben Affleck, etc. who have appeared in the film versions of the books. They are more of "everymen", and this film even features a sort of Hitchcockian "wrong man" syndrome. If you cast the most handsome actor in the world like Tom Cruise or some superman with muscles like Arnie, it's hard to really take the movie seriously in any way as sci-fi or for the characters to feel like normal people with neuroses and addictions and so forth like Dick's characters do. Actually I think Gary Sinise would have been perfect in "Total Recall" (maybe with a different director) and Schwartzenegger would have been better for "Impostor." I think I read that at one point there was going to be a serious version of "Total Recall" with Dennis Quaid, but that version didn't end up happening.
But anyway I mean overall the cast is the least thing I would fault here. Great supporting actors. Tony Shalhoub, Mekhi Phifer, Vincent D'Onofrio. Madeleine Stowe was always good and very beautiful. I thought the cast was great, but I can see the OP's point that the movie probably would have made more money with an action star in the lead.
Did I not love him, Cooch? MY OWN FLESH I DIDN'T LOVE BETTER!!! But he had to say 'Nooooooooo'
Elizabeth Pena sadly underused as a midwife.
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