That is admirable, but even more admirable is that Gibson, as director, doesn’t give himself a soppy speech explaining why he doesn’t say them. There are times in the movie where McLeod could make things easy for himself simply by saying things that his pride and ethics will not let him say. “Gibson’s performance is interesting as a reminder of his versatility not many actors can fit comfortably in both “Lethal Weapon” and “Hamlet” (1990), and here he finds just the right note for McLeod: Not a caricature, not a softy, not pathetic, but fiercely sure of what is right and wrong. ![]() Considering that The Man Without A Face is Gibson’s directorial debut, the movie received generous reviews, including one from notoriously harsh film critic Roger Ebert, who wrote that The Man Without A Face is evidence of Gibson’s versatility. Mel Gibson also starred in the movie, alongside Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton, Fay Masterson, Gaby Hoffman, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, and many others. ![]() ![]() The movie is based on a ’70s novel of the same name, written by the author Isabelle Holland. The Man Without A Face, released in 1993, is Mel Gibson’s directorial debut.
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