In this haunting crime thriller, Hugh Jackman delivers his best performance to date

In this haunting crime thriller, Hugh Jackman delivers his best performance to date.

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Hugh Jackman will reprise his most well-known role this summer in Marvel's Deadpool & Wolverine.

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But Jackman's greatest acting part is found outside of any fictional world in the 2013 picture Prisoners, which was helmed by Denis Villeneuve, the director of Dune: Part Two.

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Fans of Prisoners will recognise Jake Gyllenhaal as Detective Loki, a committed investigator who is working to solve the case while preventing Keller Dover from taking any snap decisions that could compromise the investigation.

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Jackman plays Keller Dover, a man who took matters into his own hands after his six-year-old daughter was abducted close to their home.

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The film was a critical and economic triumph, with praise for Villeneuve's mysterious, haunting directing and main performances

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The two-hander pits Jackman and Gyllenhaal against each other, with the former channelling the anguish of losing a kid and the latter exuding the world-weariness of his macabre career in a wired, exhausting performance.

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It is a significant success for Villeneuve and the two lead actors, a mysterious and scary drama that asks how far a person will go to do what they believe to be the right thing, even if it means making numerous difficult, risky decisions.

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Jackman has always played wrath exceptionally well. That comes across in each of his appearances as Wolverine, particularly in James Mangold's Logan.

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But the ferocity of Keller Dover, a desperate man who believes he has nothing to lose in his quest to reclaim his child, elicits an even more grounded and riveting wrath from Jackman, which is both sympathetic and horrifying.

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