Orlando Bloom rebels against his Rather Handsome Gent image with The Cut (now streaming on Paramount+), in which he plays an aging boxer trying to lose far too much weight in far too little time in order to land a comeback bout. Of course you know Bloom as the big screen swashbuckler in The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean movies; more recently, we saw him stealing scenes playing a Method actor in goofy comedy Deep Cover, and we’re intrigued by the thought of him voicing a raccoon in a Peppa Pig special, so you can’t say the guy isn’t building a diverse filmography. Bloom works with director Sean Ellis (The Cursed, Anthropoid) and co-stars John Turturro and Caitriona Balfe, but the star has his work cut out for him trying to transcend a bevy of cliches.
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