And while Bradley Cooper is an actor that I admire, and it's always a pleasure to see Jeremy Irons no matter how small the role, it's a little worrying that «The Words» might follow suit, especially in the
hands of first - time
directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, the writing
duo behind the disappointing «TRON: Legacy.»
Rather than focusing on bullets traded and blows landed with shaky, «immediate» handheld photography,
director Gore Verbinski relies on the pleasures
of unexpected motion occurring within a static frame: a character falling off a train to land on an unseen horse, or our dynamic
duo finding themselves swinging in circles after the chains on their
hands get caught on an overhead cable, or, most famously, Tonto bridging up on a ladder in the «middle»
of a fight between the Ranger and William Fichtner's Butch Kavendish.