Wrecked by Matthew Broderick

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2012)

Apologies to Matthew Broderick, but he simply did not have the gravitas necessary to carry the lead role in this movie. Yes, the rest of the cast is amazing. Yes, Zwick is a fine director of sprawling epics. But Broderick's performance is so un-epic and his accent is so atrocious, that the entire film is diminished. It always kills me when star-power casting choices outweigh common sense. Did he use the accent in the screen test? Or did he get the role without a test at all? It reminds me of the way that Dracula was destroyed by the monstrously bad (pun) accents of Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder. Anyway, the rest of Glory is very good. If bad accents and mediocre acting in the lead do not bother you then you will probably enjoy it a great deal.