Damian Lewis is a fine actor but someone should really tell him that he doesn't do accents. After his hilarious attempt at Russian in Stormbreaker he fares only marginally better with American - what we get is not so much Mid-Atlantic as about fifty miles from England Atlantic - and is in danger of becoming a latter-day Sean Connery with his roots eternally showing. That said he turns in a fairly decent performance here helped by the director shooting 90 per cent of the film with Lewis's head and shoulders filling the frame. The support hardly gets a look-in but nevertheless each one is more than competent. So what's it about? Glad you asked because it's about what YOU, the viewer WANT it to be about. It's evident from Frame #1 that Keane isn't playing with a full deck as he ostensibly lurks around PATH looking for a daughter who may or may not exist. An early clue - Keane makes a phone call and asks for a woman who isn't or doesn't want to be available to speak to him - that perhaps he has lost custody to an estranged/divorced wife leads nowhere and doesn't surface again. Gradually the film veers onto another course and seems to be about connecting and we are reminded of The Woodsman in the scenes when Keane befriends a girl who is the same age as his missing daughter if, of course, he HAS a daughter. It's not exactly a Saturday night movie but it is worth seeing.
Review of Keane
