And there are plenty
of supporting players on hand who help make this a better movie than it has any right to be.
Much of that is missing here and we are reduced down to numerous hospital workers
as supporting players which makes each death less personal.
Lets support the players we have, lets leave the world class player alone, lets leave the price tags alone and focus on being supporters.
Offers a relatable young protagonist and several
key supporting players from the prior films in a nimble setup to the series.
For the first hour, big
name supporting players continue to showing up, giving the viewer hope this might turn out to be something worthwhile.
Supporting players serve more story functionality than anything else, but the players breathe life into their small roles.
While these four
supporting players give the more dynamic performances of the picture, not enough development or substance exists for a lasting connection to be made.
There are a couple of good shock cuts, a special attention paid to
idiosyncratic supporting players, and the usual mix of romance, military efficiency and doomed teenagers.
The game does
support players dropping out: their hands can be left as is and other players can continue without them without it having much game impact.
They are mostly alienated from the world around them, relegated to
supporting players in their own stories.
We need to keep united as a club and
support the players who do give there all, we do have a good team but not a world class team.
The leads are actually quite good in their respective roles, and the cast
of supporting players are solid all around.
Add in
supporting players like Glenn Close, J.K. Simmons, Christopher Walken, Ving Rhames, and Terry Bradshaw, and you have a great comedic cast.
With such uninspiring material, the uniformly talented cast — whose
supporting players include such comedy heavyweights as Rob Huebel, Adam Scott, Paul Rudd, David Wain, John Early, and Paul Rust — all seem to have the volume turned down on their performances.
The film does not become a comedy of errors, but there are more than a few awkward exchanges thanks to Churchill's interactions with
supporting players such as Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI or Lily James as Elizabeth, Churchill's latest secretary.
So Huston turned to Humphrey Bogart, a veteran
supporting player at Warners who'd specialised in sidekicks and villains, and relished the chance of taking on a complex anti-hero like Spade.
Boseman certainly holds his own, but there are quite a few charismatic
supporting players here keen to steal every scene they can — and they do, notably the physically imposing Jordan, the radiant Nyong» o and especially Wright, who gives her every scene extra punch and humor.
What «Set Fire to the Stars» does have is great turns
by supporting players, especially Shirley Henderson and Kevin Eldon.
There are too many
other supporting players in Black Panther for them to all shine equally bright, but the film's ensemble is rock solid across the board - from key players in the story such as Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya as W'Kabi (T'Challa's confidant and ally) and Winston Duke as M'Baku (the powerful leader of Wakanda's mountain tribe, the Jabari), to the Wakandan elders like Angela Basset's Ramonda (T'Challa's mother) and Forest Whitaker's Zuri (keeper of the Heart - Shaped Herb).
Dupontel tries to juggle the 3 different protagonists, alongside a growing ensemble of
supporting players whose involvement further complicates the increasingly convoluted plot (a late appearance by Léa Seydoux is pretty baffling, especially due to how little work the internationally recognised actress is given here).
Among supporting players, Alfre Woodward has one great scene as a gossipy, highly intelligent, exalted lady among slaves, and she makes you wish the movie had a few more character sketches like hers among the lashings.
There isn't a rote performance or flat character in the whole movie —
even supporting players like Peter's decathlon teammates feel like real teenagers at a real high school, struggling with their own teenager issues.
Relocating to the eastern seaboard, roles in the TV series Matlock and a stand - out «crooked cop» role in Bruce Beresford's ensemble heist hit Money Movers (1978) signalled to the industry that Cassell was that
great supporting player who could enliven any narrative.