Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster was absolutely terrible in this movie. It was like she mailed in the role. Was she reading from a teleprompter? Not anywhere near her acting abilities in Panic Room and Silence of the Lambs.
shareI have to agree. Her delivery was SO off.
I found myself wondering if it was intentional (i. e. the director wanted it that way). If so I cant understand why.
If it weren't for the even more unbearable Kruger character and his grating delivery/accent she'd easily have been the worst part of this - already mediocre - movie.
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I don't know, Butchie, instead.
You would think the director of Elysium would have noticed how bad Kruger's accent was hurting the movie. Every time Kruger opened his mouth I could not help but cringe and laugh. Within the hour I turned the sound off and used subtitles so I did not have to hear his voice. Jodie Foster's acting was bad beyond belief. How could the director not know this?
shareWhen you say Kruger's accent hurt the movie, do you mean South African accents in general? I happen to like the S.A. accent, but it's so rare to hear it in America maybe that's why it can be hard to understand.
shareI love South African accents it just was so over the top in Elysium. It was so over the top that Kruger's performance single handely caused the poor reviews.
sharePeople had a problem with Kruger's accent? Why? It was clear that he was South African; he even sang that lullaby in Afrikaans on the ship. And South Africa has a history of making good soldiers & mercenaries. Made perfect sense to me and I understood him fine.
shareThat was exactly the problem, he was trying to inject too much Sth African into the film. He was basically a caricature.
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