The performances are all rock solid. It's a great performance. He also inspires one of the stranger Christmas dinner parties I've ever seen. I swear, there's gotta be a Walken in his family tree. Of all the Tarantino-wannabees that littered the cineplex landscape, Doug Liman has rightfully inherited the throne, not by ripping off QT s style, but by complimenting it.
Art boils to down to an interpretation of ideas, and an individualized sense of style.
Maybe Doug Liman will remained a stylized, aggressive voice, but maybe he ll become the next Tarantino or Warren Beatty and go soft on us. The Tarantino we love still may be coming back to us one of these days.