Review: Bruce Willis is comatose in new play 'Misery'

NEW YORK (AP) — In the end, "Misery" isn't total misery. It's just weird. Apart from the fact that it's a completely unnecessary adaptation, you oddly start to root for the monster, not the bona fide action hero.

That's because Bruce Willis makes an appallingly ill-conceived Broadway debut in the thriller that opened Sunday at the Broadhurst Theatre. But Laurie Metcalf rescues the "Die Hard" stud by doing enough good acting for both of them.

Nowhere this season on Broadway is there an acting gulf as wide between two leads than here. Willis has decided to squint a lot, mumble and rely on some "Moonlighting"-era quipping, not to mention an earpiece that feeds him lines. The artificial snow that falls on the set has more dynamism.

Metcalf, who some will know from the TV show "Roseanne," is a Steppenwolf Theatre Company veteran who plays a towering psychotic — girlish one minute and inhuman the next. She's so good that she starts making sense. She's so good you care about her, even if she's waving a gun menacingly.

The action takes place in a lonely, snow-encased Colorado town. While driving on an icy road, novelist Paul Sheldon crashes and is pinned in his car, with a new manuscript tucked away in his nearby briefcase.



By Mark Kennedy.
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