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The Voices Review

I've never had much of an opinion of Ryan Reynolds. He seemed like a dime-a-dozen movie star with impossibly good looks that have helped him survive several stinkers that would've been career-destroying flops for anybody else. While I did enjoy him in both  Deadpool  movies it looked to me like he was playing off his natural charisma and personality rather than employing any acting talent. However, after watching 2014's  The Voices  I feel as though I've underestimated him. Reynolds stars as Jerry, a good-natured man working in a bathtub factory suffering from particularly intense schizophrenia. His cat and dog (also voiced by Reynolds) often talk to him, giving him both good and bad advice. After a date with his office crush goes wrong in the bloodiest of ways, his hallucinations become more intense and Mr. Whiskers becomes more insistent that he continue killing people as a way of life. The main reason to see the film is Ryan Reynolds as Jerry. He plays it a lot l