Working through Marwan Kenzari’s filmography and what the fuck was Loft (2010). For real, the remake was enjoyable, clearly not as good as the original but Marwan Kenzari really pulled me out of the movie, it’s the biggest casting error I’ve seen in a long while.
Filip/Tommy is supposed to be that unhinged, really unsatable/could snap at any moment, overflowing with violence and anger kind of character. That’s the opposite of Kenzari’s strength in acting, here he’s really incontrol, nothing slips off his face, he looks more like a playboy than a dangerous man. When in the og Filip can barely stay in one place and can’t keep his impulsiveness in check here you get the sense he’s not phased by anything and in control of everything all the time. Even in the scene where Filip/Tommy is supposed to break down you don’t feel that angry edge and how deranged he is, in Tommy’s it’s just sad when that’s clearly not the goal for the character.
So far, out of the movies I’ve seen he’s casted for the wrong character way too much. Here he would have been so great as the psychatrist, soft skin and raw heart and righteous. And let’s be honest we all know why he gets casted for that and it just makes it so much more upsetting.
