"Benjamin makes a good fist of not letting the farce run overboard and steers the narrative back to Alan's lucid understanding of reconciling himself with the pros and cons of becoming a beloved movie star, O'Toole, in another self-referential role after Richard Rush's THE STUNT MAN (1980), shows off a larger-than-life persona calibrated with equal measures of panache, kookiness and sentiment, although, does a legitimate Hollywood star need such sentimentality? It might just as well be a filmmaker's cunning approach to cater to common audience's fanciful wishful thinking, a sympathetic look of a star's messy private life, that's really rich! "
read my full review on my blog: Cinema Omnivore, thanks.
read my full review on my blog: Cinema Omnivore, thanks.