bruce-leroy
Outstanding Member
I agree with you that Matt smith is pretty poor.
I havent seen the Staircase and apparently he is different in that, but ive never found Colin Firth appealing in anything. He plays the same awkward, unlikable, bumbling role in pretty much everything. Sometimes he is a bad father as well.
He's not annoyingly bad (like Melissa George), but he's never been great in anything ive seen him in.
Firth does have a habit of playing the archetypal, bumbling Brit (much like Hugh Grant in his early days), although he used that ‘Britishness’ to much better effect in Kingsman: The Secret Service. He was great in that - channeling Patrick McNee’s John Steed. Also, I liked Firth in a darker role in the Nicole Kidman thriller Before I Go to Sleep.