I'm sorry, but I just saw this again and Hackman stole the show. Anyone else agree? Sometimes the antagonist makes the movie and I think that's the case here.
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Another agree - with acknowledgment to Dustin Hoffman as well. Through amazing luck I've had a chance to meet both of these great actors (several years apart) and I loved this pairing in the cast. Gene Hackman does steal the show.
shareHackman was great as always, same with Hoffman. Just to see these two incredible actors in the same film was awesome. Great flick, pretty underrated.
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shareHackman and Hoffman are both great... but I have always been a bit biased towards the former, perhaps because I have seen more films of his than Hoffman's. I, however, feel that Hackman has a greater range as a performer (and I know that many would disagree)... films like The Conversation, Scarecrow, French Connection, Unforgiven, Night Moves, Mississippi Burning, etc. further testify it.
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Hackman is a %^)*^&$0 legend! He scarfed the *beep* out of his co-stars with his reputation; talent and presence. He was one of the truly great America actors. And he was at the top of his game when he called it a day.
shareI think that the scene in the toilet - four, five minutes long? - is worth alone the whole movie.
What the hell of a duo!
Hackman blew everybody's doors off, but I think Hoffman was a serious miscast. I think he was trapped in what I call the "John Wayne Syndrome." You see John Wayne in a movie, and you never think of him in terms of being a character, you see him as John Wayne, first, last, and always. He even wore the same costume in most of his movies.
Harrison Ford is a lot like that. But Dustin Hoffman, to me, couldn't sell me the idea that he could be a principle-driven attorney (how's that for an oxymoron?). He was Dustin Hoffman reading a part. Hackman totally sold me that he was a sleazeball jury-manipulator, and that scene in the bathroom was his and his alone.
Hoffman, give credit, completely had me sold on Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie, one of the best performances of all time by any actor, but not here.
Hoffman wanted the Hackman role, but Hackman was already cast.
Just about any villain role gives an actor a chance to shine, and Hackman's role was far juicier than Hoffman's. Naturally his performance outshone Hoffman's. Both are among the best actors America has ever had.
Hackman is the best! See Get Shorty!!!
shareYa it was a perfect role for him and he was awesome in it.
Not like Lex Luthor (FacePalm)!
really though, Jeremy Piven stole his thunder
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