In some of my other reviews, I’ve bemoaned what feels like
the status quo in regards to the treatment of older actors. The notion that, in
order to get anything of worth out of folks like Robert De Niro or Morgan
Freeman, they have to be stripped of their dignity and paraded around in
stories where their age is part of the joke. Now, I get the underlying reason
why people like De Niro accept those kind of roles (they want to put money away
for their kids, so they’re not exactly picky with their scripts), but at the
same time, essentially selling out doesn’t mean that one has to throw away any
and all standards in the process.
