4. Colin Farrell - In Bruges
Colin Farrell is one of those actors whose reputation in real life seeps into his performances, to the point where it's kind of impossible to separate the two. So because you know that Farrell is a bit of a d*ck in person, you kind of project that persona onto him whenever he turns up on the big screen. Which is essentially a long and convoluted way of saying that: Colin Farrell comes across as an egotistic jerk-off - in real life, and in the movies, too. Whilst the Irish actor comes across as plainly unlikeable in most films, In Bruges - the black comedy set in the Belgium town of the same time - contains such as likeable and endearing Colin Farrell performance that you almost want to forgive him entirely for all the bad times. As Ray, a sweetly naive hitman hiding out after a job gone wrong, he's both funny and - believe it or not - adorable, marking it out as the most affable turn of his entire career.
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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
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