>The flaws
>inherent in the part reside with the writer/filmmaker, not
>with the actor, in this case, IMO.

The 'CLOONEY as Basil Exposition' note mentioned above is completely valid to me; complaining that he's playing the same guy he always plays and that he should "react differently in the face of cold space death" is straight silliness.

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