Very different than the first trailer which came out last month, but still very compelling. The beginning almost feels like it should be at the end, what with the rapidly increasing music and action-oriented cuts. Still, I'm excited to see this for Bardem; I can't recall the last time I saw him in a movie where he was a definitive, stand alone leading man, and that's a shame. Inarritu's films (at least those written by Guillermo Arriaga; this one is not) have an iffy track record with me, but the man does know how to create captivatingly gritty images and get often staggering performances out of his actors. And without any converging-story-lines BS like Babel, focusing on a single story will hopefully make this tale of an increasingly distressed police officer even more compelling.
On a side note, can we please have a moratorium on trailers using critics quotes that directly reference Oscar season? Just gives us blurbs about the quality, not its awards potential; we all know how political AMPAS can be.
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