Cast member Shia LaBeouf poses at the premiere of "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman" during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)

Shia LaBeouf is a really good actor ... or maybe he’s not

Scott D. Pierce | The Salt Lake Tribune

First Published Jan 21 2013 09:52 pm • Last Updated Jan 22 2013 08:53 am

Shia LaBeouf gets the crap beaten out of hom in "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman."

Well, the character he plays - the title character - gets beaten to a bloody pulp.

You’d think it was all movie magic. It had to be, right?

Except that when LaBeouf was asked about those scenes, he wasn’t exactly expansive. He wasn’t eloquent.

Heck, he was barely coherent.

He babbled about preparing for those scenes. "Fear does wild things to you, you know," was about the best he could come up with.

Either he was a really good actor in the movie … or he wasn’t. Hard to tell.

Scott D. Pierce

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