Just The Right Man For The Job

The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a good one; scientist creates serum that erupts his violent, ultra-strong and monstrous alter-ego. The actor playing him must have the skills and nuances to display the inner turmoil of the good doctor at once trying to find a cure, and enjoying the power at his possession. All very interesting stuff and potentially brilliant in the right hands. So, of course, they gave it to Keanu Reeves.

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but I’m pretty sure Keanu had a stroke or something in the early 90’s. At one point he was the awesome surfer dude in the Bill & Ted movies, Point Break, Parenthood, all that good stuff… and then BAM!, he seemed incapable of human emotion. The “character traits” of apathy, detachment and cynicism he displayed in Constatine, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Matrix trilogy, et al could just as easily be described as an entire lack of acting skill. On the plus side, he does seem to have discovered the fountain of youth. Or, if not youth, then at least “age stabilizing.”

I seem to have gotten off topic at some point.