Mumbling school of acting

Rating: 1/10 (6 October 2006)

Please! Meryl Streep mumbles all the way through it. You want 2 dimensional voice? You have it: mumble-mumble she lifts her finger, mumble-mumble, she gives that look, mumble-mumble time for some fast edits and cute faces because diva Streep just hasn't got what it takes in the voice department. And this is a film that swims or sinks on its vocal merits.
Mumbling has sunk many a film, just look (before you lurch screaming for the exit) at Al Pacino in Revolution. Clint Eastwood did it because he could pull it off, cool, it was his persona - and you cannot pull that out of your handbag. Why do actors keep thinking they can pull it off? As for the English girl (why mention her name?), she is so out of her element; you just want to tell her to go back to chewing horse grass in daddy's paddock darling.
VERDIT: The film is now in the UK. I like you, dear reader, mumble-mumble, you are an honest viewer. So avoid it.