[Uncle Hal]

I learned to like Matt Damon in “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”

[joebuck]

"I learned to like Matt Damon in “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”

I think Matt Damon is always playing Matt Damon and has no range as an actor. I thought he got totally outclassed in "The Departed" where, once again, he was playing Matt Damon while Nickolson, DiCapprio, Wahlberg and even Sheen and Balwin created some great characters. It kills me to admit Baldwin can actually act sometimes but I thought his Irish cop in Departed was really good.

[clintonh8r]

Purple Noon (1960), the movie upon which The Talented Mr Ripley is based, is even better.