The one criticism Paul had after RR was that he didn't find Leonardo DiCaprio quite believable as Frank Wheeler. "He just seemed to young, or soft, or something," Paul said. I found him pretty believable. But I was reading Dave Denby's review the other day and saw that he had a tiny quibble with DiCaprio that sort of echoed what Paul said.
Here's Denby:
"DiCaprio, by turns cocky, supplicating, and enraged, gets the externals right, but he seems a little afraid of revealing the depths of Frank's shallowness. Frank is a liar, an adulterer, and a compromiser who betrays himself as much as his wife, but DiCaprio projects a natural heroic sweetness--it's in his movie-star genes--which, in this case, is at odds with the character he's playing. If you think of Paul Newman's acid moments in The Hustler and Hud, you can imagine how the role might have been done."
What did you think?
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