Tracy Letts is in rare form in a mixed bag of an erotic thriller.
Deep Water is far from a disposable movie, but it is one lacking in commitment to either thoughtful drama or enjoyable camp. Trying to straddle the line between these two worlds just doesn’t do either the film itself or the audience any good. The result is often tedious when it should be thrilling and repetitive when it wants to be contemplative. But there is one person who escapes from this project with flying colors. That would be Tracy Letts, here playing the part of neighbor Don Wilson.
Amusingly, Letts doesn’t just function as an amusing caricature with a pulse. His work as Don Wilson also fills the role of a voice of reason or audience surrogate in various parts of Deep Water’s story. There’s so much obvious nastiness and duplicity going on in this suburban madness with many characters remaining oblivious to what’s happening in front of them.
This shocking development causes Letts to turn his performance into overdrive, particularly in his line delivers. The frantic nature of Wilson as he realizes his suspicions were all on the money causes him to blurt out to Vic, “You’re going to jail, you…psycho!” The emphasis on “jail” in that phrase and the borderline-juvenile smug satisfaction make it sound like a line a five-year-old might write, which is a compliment.
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