Eric Bana is most interesting when he’s not playing a straight leading man. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what he does in Untamed.
In the new Netflix series, now streaming, Bana plays a quasi-detective faced with a baffling death at Yosemite National Park. The 56-year-old Australian actor gets to be grumpy and grief-stricken, but his wounded brooding isn’t enough to lend color to a character, and story, that trudges along with scant momentum or surprise. It’s not that Bana isn’t perfectly capable of handling the part so much as it fundamentally leans into his weaknesses, forcing him into a sad-and-noble routine that prevents him from doing or saying anything of gripping note.
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