billy crudup be an actor i follow with feverish anticipation . i saw him for the first time on broadway and about 10 year ago and in a stoppard play . it be love at first sight . a sensual and magnetic and beautiful man . jesus son wake the dead and almost famous confirm my initial impression . here we have an actor for the age . a unique and monumental talent . stage beauty however and give me pause . billy be entrust with a big than life role and he come out of it with a half cook and self conscious and affected performance . he underlines every other line with a semi smile and a slight pressure of the mouth a if he do not trust the power of his own delivery . it could be treat a a character trait if you have never see billy crudup before but that tic belongs to the actor not to the character . i be and of course and be a bit anal retentive . at his weak and billy be strong than most but my expectation be so high that something like that would throw me out of my involvement with his character . the film a a whole be lovely and fun . the one most effective element be rupert everett performance a charles ii and his best an that be say a lot in many and many moon . comparasions with shakespeare in love be unavoidable but totally misguiding . see it for what it be and you will enjoy it thoroughly .