![]() This should be fascinating, but mostly the movie is a turgid morass, except for Penn’s scenes. He ended up supplying some 10,000 of them. ![]() Incarcerated at notorious insane asylum Broadmoor, Minor’s gift for language nevertheless saw him strike up an unlikely friendship with Murray after answering a call-out to help with the emerging dictionary’s overwhelming definitions. Possibly suffering from what we now know as PTSD, he was transferred from hospital in Washington to London, where his paranoia led to him fatally shooting an innocent man. He plays Dr William Chester Minor, a real-life American army surgeon who had a mental breakdown following the horror of the Civil War. ![]() Mauled from Simon Winchester’s New York Times best-selling 1998 novel The Surgeon of Crowthorne, it’s even more upsetting to learn visionary director John Boorman ( Excalibur, Deliverance) had a hand in penning this putrid puffery.īut by far the worst offender is also-problematic actor Sean Penn. ![]() Safinia may as well have cited his screenplay as a sound reason to bury it. If only his dubious tongue, infamous for anti-Semitic tirades and misogyny, was the worst thing about this woefully dull period biopic.įor a film about the silken beauty of language, Gibson and his co-stars wade through clunky, chunky dialogue that solidifies in their throats as if swallowing lead. ![]()
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