Justin Timberlake Lacks Yet Another Talent
October 6th, 2005 at 13:30 by C J Davies
Pube-headed professional white boy Justin Timberlake has had his ‘acting’ debut universally panned by critics.
Timberlake - a man so lacking in personality he could work in Wetherspoons - took on the task of extending his acting talons in Edison, in which he slips not-so-expertly into the shoes of "a cub reporter exposing police corruption."
And - according to reports - Justin’s primary-school readthrough of a performance is nothing short of rubbish.
Variety magazine - kings of insider Hollywood gossip and bizarre slang-driven headlines - likened poor Justin Timberlake (CDs) to "a reporter from Seventeen magazine." The Hollywood Reporter was a little kinder, referring to this thespian non-endeavour as being "green but earnest".
It’s not as if Timberlake can hide his awfulness (Keanu Reeves-style) by surrounding himself with wonderful distractions. The whole cast of Edison have all been given the journalistic equivalent of a hooded-mob happy slapping - no mean feat when you realise that it consists of Oscar-guzzling luminaries like Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman.
Just to recap, then: Edison is "a star-studded dud of a B-picture" that reels out "a parade of cliches" with "enough posturing to start up a chiropractic clinic".
Still. Probably not as bad as Revolver.
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October 8th, 2005 at 4:47 am
Critics are known to give opinions basied on there own dislike for the actor. I’ll wait to see the movie myself before I listen to them.
October 14th, 2005 at 3:52 pm
You confess your bias against Justin in the first line. Do you expect anyone to take your obviously biased review seriously?
Also, one can’t be “universally panned” and yet get a positive review from The Hollywood Reporter and a fair-to-middling review from Vareity.
Try to do better next time.
December 25th, 2005 at 9:34 am
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