It’s like a fucking Joss Whedon production, except instead of a supporting cast to help shoulder the abuse, the guy has to go it alone. You can find a list somewhere on the internets, but it’s seriously too long to put here.

But this is really just an overly-long way of saying I agree: Keanu may not be the best at emoting, but guns aren’t meant to be teddy bears, either. You can’t just stick something in a wildly inappropriate place and expect it to work out. Put him in a role he knows and he’s aces.

N-n-n-necropost!

Other great performances IMO – Constantine, The Devil’s Advocate, Under the Influence, and I have yet to watch The Gift but everyone seems to think it among his best.

- Anakin McFly, webmaster of the Keanu-defence site ‘Whoa is (Not) Me’, who likes your article but less so its title.

For years now I’ve been defending Keanu’s acting abilites to many and in the end I always get the same response, “He doesn’t know how to act . . . He’s over-rated . . . blah-blah-blah”

There are some films I found Keanu a little…pardon my french here – sh!ty. But most of it stems from his early projects. I find his skills and range improves with each new role (now try convincing an Keanu hater of that one, I must add). My tops of the list are: The Gift, Speed, and The Matrix triology. My least fav has to be Chain Reaction. Not only it was a lousy, hard-to-follow movie. But Keanu (to me) seemed awked and clumsy with his body movements and language in that one.

The Gift is one I hold dear, for he really had his role of ‘Donnie’ down pack. Ten seconds into his scenes, I was ready to kill him myself. And coming from a girl whom Keanu had since, “Whoa” were a differcult task for him to pull off.

I actually feel the same way about Bruce Willis. He doesn’t have a lot of range, but he plays very well within that range. The difference is that Willis has rarely strayed outside of the “character actor” parts he plays well, and Keanu has.