ScarJo has hit the same wall. She was better as a young actress. She was good (not great, and not nearly as great as Portman in “Beautiful Girls) in the “Horse Whisperer.” Once she got her curves and became a sex symbol, she started mailing it in more than FedEx.

She can try and hide in “important” roles, but those roles are box office poison. Unless she makes a buck or turns those roles into award winners, she’ll eventually be toast. I don’t see her aging well either given her prepubescent appearance.

Portman gets the hype, but give me Anna Faris. She’s done absolute crap at times, but she’s almost always good in it, sells her self and doesn’t take herself too seriously. She’s one role away from being the most important actress in Hollywood.

This trailer screams America hating, military bashing tripe. Oh, and by the way, the Gyllenhaal character, whom the trailer makes out to be the noble one? He’s an ex-convict. While the veteran is the one who goes all psycho-violent. Given Hollywood’s current gutless stance toward events in the real world, it would not surprise me in the least if Gyllenhaal’s character is so calm and well-adjusted because he converted to Islam during his time behind bars.

If they wanted to be original they would have made it a couple of upper middle brother’s living in New York, one brother is a lawyer compensating for his guilt about not having the guts to serve in the military, while the other brother became a Marine Corp officer after getting a degree in literature & history from Harvard. And instead of taking the typical route of psycho-violence meant to shock our sensibilities, the movie would stay “small” by focusing on the human drama created by these two very different worldviews.

Instead it’s cliche after cliche after cliche.