Liev Schreiber: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

And 5 Performances That Sucked...

5. James - A Perfect Man

Blah. If there's anywhere that Liev Schreiber doesn't belong, it's in a movie like this, which gives him nothing interesting to do but look guilty and act like a womaniser for the sum of its parts. Not in a way that is inherently entertaining, mind, but one that has you checking your watch, wondering when the damn thing will finally be over. The plot here is absolutely ridiculous, and might've worked better had the solemn tone of the movie been replaced with a good bit of lightheartedness, and the movie re-cast with the likes of Jennifer Aniston and, say, Owen Wilson. Schreiber himself looks as if he's trying to act properly here, but because the rest of the movie going on around him is so incompetent, it doesn't ring true. If you're interested in the story (though you shouldn't be), A Perfect Man centres around a not very nice guy named James who falls in love with his ex-wife all over again when he believes he mistakes her for another woman. To describe A Perfect Man as anything other than "flat" would be misleading - and that's what we get from Liev Schreiber here, sadly: a flat performance with nothing much going for it. Shame.