In TheWhale, directed by Darren Aronofsky (who shepherded Mickey Rourke’s return in “The Wrestler”), Brendan Fraser is a better actor — slyer, subtler, more haunting — than he has ever been.
The movie carries us along, tethering the audience to Fraser’s intensely lived-in and touching performance, yet the more it goes on the more its drama is interlaced with nagging contrivances, like the whole issue of why this father and daughter were ever so separated from each other. We learn that after Charlie and Ellie’s mother, Mary , were divorced, Mary got full custody and cut Charlie off from Ellie.
There’s one other major character, a lost young missionary for the New Life Church named Thomas, and though Ty Simpkins plays him appealingly, the way this cult-like church plays into the movie feels like one hard-to-swallow conceit too many. This matters a lot, because if we can’t totally buy what’s happening, we won’t be as moved by Charlie’s road to redemption. Near the end, there’s a very moving moment.
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