If his breakout performance in A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints is anything to place your bets on, Tatum certainly has a shot at thespian credibility.
The screenplay by Mr. Montiel ("A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints") is, in a word, calamitous: his story filled with gaping holes, his dialogue laughably overheated.
And even though he is still young and a little raw, Mr. Tatum (who also appeared in "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," Mr. Montiel's debut film) has what it takes to be a real movie star.
Over the course of lunch she rattled off half a dozen performances she had been studying lately, especially George Clooney and Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton, Marion Cotillardd in "La Vie en Rose" and Chazz Palminteri in "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints".
Mr. Tatum, in his movie roles so far — "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" and "Fighting," both directed by Dito Montiel, are the best — has shown himself to be an actor of narrow range.
In "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," a coming-of-age drama from Dito Montiel, based on his memoir, at 9 45, a writer thinks back on his childhood in a rough neighborhood in Astoria, Queens.
He's checking in on a film project he and Elias are working on, an adaptation of "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," Dito Montiel's punk-rock memoir of growing up amid violence and learning to see holiness in the everyday of hard-core life.
The habit of building a tempest out of nothing became a Scorsese trademark, widely imitated by other directors, including Dito Montiel, who made the new independent movie "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," in which almost every scene turns into a clamorously inarticulate fight.
Dazzled by the piratical, rat-tailed Jake (LaBeouf's most convincing performance since 2006's A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints), Star learns the tricks of the trade – the door-knocking deceptions, which at first appal her but gradually start to appeal.
