thoughts on Forest Whitaker's role in the film?

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everymanaking6488 — 9 years ago(November 18, 2016 08:58 PM)

what do you think?

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AKenjiB_II — 9 years ago(November 18, 2016 09:16 PM)

He honestly felt like the weak link for me which is shocking since I think he's a wonderful actor. But I could never figure out what his accent was or why he felt it was necessary to even use a different accent when he was playing a U.S. army colonel.

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Tsotha-lanti — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 10:48 AM)

Yeah, I thought he was supposed to be African or Caribbean, and that made me think he was going to have a real role here.

Imagine that.

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Farshnoshket — 9 years ago(November 18, 2016 09:17 PM)

Well if there was any comedy in this film it came from Forrest. I mean realllllllllllly dry, but there were moments.
The thing about Forest is that's he's so real, so down to earth. He's like a big teddy bear. You just have to like the guy.
Forrest plays himself and as always did a fine job.

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everymanaking6488 — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 06:12 AM)

dude is on a roll. ever since Southpaw last year he's been getting cast in nearly everything of late

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cjdan — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 09:09 AM)

I think he was great in this movie. On the other hand, I also think it's a shame that this role is what's offered. He's so much more capable.

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C-Younkin — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 08:51 PM)

It's a Boston accent. Or should I say, a bad Boston accent.
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Review of the film here-

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roland-rockerfella — 9 years ago(November 19, 2016 09:01 PM)

Sadly his characters didnt have much to do. But that can be said for all of them except the interpreter, this was very much a film about her, the rest of them were just well there.

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everymanaking6488 — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 09:30 AM)

Good point