In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn’t missed a workout for the past two years so he fits the bill in that regard. What he’s missing in The Eagle is that spark of the insane — the slightly lunatic fever that makes us unable to keep our eyes off him. Instead, he’s so distant, he looks slightly baked. It’s supposed to be a combination of the thousand-yard-stare and lost in a state of continual flashback that director Kevin Macdonald cuts to reveal Tatum’s “Inner Pain.” Instead, the star seems irritated that his buzz will burn off before a new batch of edibles arrives.
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REVIEW: Channing Tatum Can’t Seem to Fly in The Eagle Despite Help from Jamie Bell
