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Greg Kinnear is Bob Crane-his best role ever.
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
May 11, 2007
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3 people found this review helpful
Greg Kinnear is a very talented actor and he proves it here,giving a terrific and wholly believable performance as the late Hogan's Hero's star Bob Crane,who was murdered in his home mysteriously-the killer never caught.This film shows us who Bob Crane really was.A very charming, decent,respectable man with a lot of integrity and wit who succombed to some very personal demons.The film is narrated by Kinnear, as Crane - from beyond the grave and he tells his own story of how his life unraveled and how he went from being a church going man who never drank or did drugs to a sexual deviant and voyeur.Everything is great for him until he meets an audio video expert played by a slimy Willem Dafoe.Dafoe's a sexual swinger and he opens a door in Crane's mind that should have been kept shut.This relationship and his sexual exploits are eventually what destroyed him as Crane tells us matter of factly.The movie never comes flat out and tells us who killed him although we have a pretty good idea.Crane, as good natured as he was,even to the end,never even blames his killer. This is quite a film with great acting and some wonderful recreations of Hogan's Hero's moments. It doesn't hurt that Kinnear looks so much like Bob Crane that they could be twins,either.It's sad to watch such a charismatic guy go down the tubes but that's what happens.That's obsession and addiction for you.The movie pulls no punches but is maybe a little too detached and matter of fact.Still this is a very intriguing and entertaining story. |
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