Movie: Biutiful

You want to talk about a transformative actor, talk about Javier Bardem. I can just remember hearing from girls who had seen No Country For Old Men how creepy he was just in the way he look; just his overall appearance sent shivers down the spine. Then, less than a year later, they see him in Vicky Cristina Barcelona and it's all about how hansome and swarthy he is.

Then look at him here. He's a completely separate human being from in each of those performances. This one though is supposed to be a last minute game stealing for the big Oscar grab. Bradem plays a small time criminal and father of two in Barcelona who's delicately maintain lifestyle just starts to unravel and ultimately fall to when he discovers he is inflicted with a terminal illness. Very is just hanging by a string. There is already the perpetual stress of just managing to scrap by when he is the only one able to care for the others in his life, and then this major distruption he is completely unable to handle. It all just slips away from him into chaos.