Bravely Honest Performances

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2013)

From the opening blast of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" to the closing riffs on "The Impossible Dream," you know you are in for a real treat, especially thanks to excellent performances all around. Michael Douglas and Matt Damon are revelations here--these two performances, I think, rank among their very best, not only for being pitch-perfect, and often quite funny, but for being brave, honest, no-holds-barred, and most of all, faithful--personality flaws and all--to their characters, which stay with you long after the final curtain drops. Both actors deserve Emmy Awards for these performances. Sensitive direction raises the story from the merely sordid and tawdry to the realm of tragedy. Bravo to all involved.