He was beaten up here and he looked it. More real. More gritty. Less prettified. Maybe it was the fact that his hair hadn't been blow-dried. I don't know. For whatever reason, I thought he had a hell of a lot more screen presence in this film than that one.
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Oh, yeah. Another good example. Thank you.
shareJust saw '71, and liked it, even though it's dark and very brutal/violent at times (I like tough, hard films like that,though--to an extent.) It was also cool to see one of my fave Brit character actors, Sean Harris, playing yet another semi-evil antagonist with questionable motives. If you want to see O'Connell in an even grittier role (and film) check him out in the harsh British prison drama STARRED UP---he's even grimier (and bald again,plus his character is flat-out scary in it) in that one, and it's disturbing but good. And British films usually tend to be a bit grittier than Hollywood films anyway---depending on the subject.
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