Ledger competed with Jack Nicholson’s famous take on the character by going his own way with it.
McConaughey’s career has had its ups and downs in the years since Richard Linklater’s cult classic, but what’s kept him compelling is evident in a brief, memorable turn as a charming burnout.
Always a character actor trapped in the body of a leading man, Kilmer gave one of his best performances as a doomed gunslinger.
He gives a crazily kinetic performance as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
As a gloriously idiotic TV personality, the comic actor isn’t afraid to make a total fool of himself.
Dowd is brilliant as a woman caught between her sense of duty and her sense of right and wrong.