Firth is dull, so dull. Less so than he is in A Single Man, I suppose, but still dull. It's the face, he does remarkably little with it in either of those films. It's not the vacant stares that Mulligan offers, but perhaps cruise control is the best word to describe what is going on in both of those films. Not even close to my best actors list of this year or last. This film made me appreciate him more in A Single Man though, I think, because of the accent thing, though the stutter is impressive maybe. It's just a lot of yelling and stifling, which does not seem all that impressive.