This is a textbook example of how you misuse a great performer in the worst possible way. Both actors are onscreen for almost the entire movie, yet are given shockingly little to do - and without anything specific to latch onto, or anything interesting or relatable to say, McGregor specifically winds up flailing. His beautiful coworker (Lea Seydoux) holds a torch for him too bad that she, too, is a replicant. The object: mass-produced romantic companionship.
In this tired, repetitive drone of a sci-fi movie, McGregor is a brilliant scientist who has designed synthetic humans capable of feeling real emotions. Image Credit: Sebastien Raymon/Im Global/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock And McGregor is the weakest link of all, as he does a variation on his mopey nice-guy shtick in a part that really demands something a lot more extreme. The silly, twisty-turny, pseudo-Hitchcockian plot might have worked if the cast were in on the goofiness, but tragically, they play it straight. Meanwhile, he’s also haunted by the figure of his seven-year-old daughter, who went missing many years ago.
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McGregor plays a surveillance expert who becomes obsessed with beautiful serial killer (and amateur astrologer!) Ashley Judd, following her around the country as she beds and kills a series of men hilariously, he seems genuinely flabbergasted whenever she claims another victim. Image Credit: Behaviour/Village Roadshow/Kobal/REX/Shutterstockīehold, the bottom of the barrel. (And, as always, this is a ranking of the performances, not the movies themselves … so don’t yell at us about how high Mortdecai is on the list.) In honor of his latest release - the Shining sequel Doctor Sleep, in which our man Ewan plays a grown-up version of Danny Torrance - here are all of McGregor’s film performances to date, ranked from worst to best.
And yet, over the years, McGregor has played everything from a messed-up heroin addict to a muckraking journalist, a psycho cowboy to Iggy Pop (basically), a Jedi master to Jesus. He’s always, on some basic level, himself - the sign of a true movie star. McGregor is not a shape-shifter or a scenery-chewer he simply uses his inquisitive glance, a gentle manner of speaking, and his slight frame in all sorts of remarkable ways. The Scottish performer’s range is broad, but his art consistently lies in restraint. For a quarter of a century, Ewan McGregor has managed to become a bona fide movie star while also proving himself to be one of the most understated actors of his - or any other - generation.
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