I like Damian Lewis. I like street dramas. I like little children who are trusting and don't get hurt by their trust. I have empathy for 'lost' souls on the streets. I'm not entirely unfeeling.
But 'Keane' is a bore. It did nothing towards making me understand the title character's predicament, how he got there, if his story was true, or if he even had a story. I only know he was getting a government check, lived (for about a week and ½) in some motel, and was delusional.
Damian Lewis can act well enough, and doesn't need me to tell him this performance was competent enough. But he didn't make Keane sympathetic, interesting, nor worthy of 94 minutes of closeups. I'm in the minority on this I can see, but this is an independent film that gives independent films the reputation of 'independent' films as in ' for an independent film it wasn't bad'. Only in this case it wasn't even close to being 'not bad'.
But 'Keane' is a bore. It did nothing towards making me understand the title character's predicament, how he got there, if his story was true, or if he even had a story. I only know he was getting a government check, lived (for about a week and ½) in some motel, and was delusional.
Damian Lewis can act well enough, and doesn't need me to tell him this performance was competent enough. But he didn't make Keane sympathetic, interesting, nor worthy of 94 minutes of closeups. I'm in the minority on this I can see, but this is an independent film that gives independent films the reputation of 'independent' films as in ' for an independent film it wasn't bad'. Only in this case it wasn't even close to being 'not bad'.