True Grit

After Denzel did Malcolm, how could he possibly do Hurricane? But did he ever, as has Jeff Bridges in True Grit. Jeff Bridges as a drunken over the hill country singer in Crazy Heart to a drunken over the hill marshal in True Grit, never once making any part of the one the other...The young girl,Ms Steinfeld, and Matt Damon are fine enough,but when Jeff Bridges is there they don't exist, as if anyone could fill those parts -- just read the lines and stay out of Mr. Bridges way...