Even in Val Kilmer’s most talked-about performances – Iceman in TopGun, Jim Morrison’s demon flower child in TheDoors, aristocratic Southern rotter in Tombstone – he had an ironic sensibility that lent his acting an invisible grace note of detachment
,” the little-seen 2003 drama in which he plays the porn star John Holmes — and guess what, it may be his single greatest performance.
Directed with bubblegum verve by Martha Coolidge , “Real Genius” certainly has a hipster quotient, since it was ahead of the geek-chic curve. Computer types had begun to pop up in movies, but no one had any idea that they would one day be cool. “Real Genius,” however, knows this.
In “Real Genius,” we see Kilmer the cutup, radiating the wicked cheek that’s often driven his best work. But if you want to see Kilmer the drop-dead serious actor, who could lay out his soul in a performance , you should check out “Wonderland,” a drama set at the true-life intersection of porn and sleaze and drugs and murder. The director, James Cox, takes a deep dive into the L.A.
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