Top 5 Lead Performances of 2007 (Male)

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Adam's Top 5
1. Frank Langella in Starting Out in the Evening
2. Samuel L. Jackson in  Black Snake Moan
3. Tim Roth in Youth Without Youth
4. Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
5. Gordon Pinsent in Away from Her

Matty's Top 5
1. Gordon Pinsent in Away from Her
2. Rolf Lassgård in After the Wedding
3. Richard Gere in The Hoax
4. Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others

Re:Top 5 Lead Performances of 2007 (Male)

 Have to agree with with choices from in both lists, especially Josh Brolin, Gordon Pinsent, Richard Gere & Ulrich Muhe.  Brolin's role started out so enigmatic--he seemed to care little for the massive death he walks into & then watches a guy die--but he redeems himself and gets us on his side, developing his character in a way similar to the way Hitchcock would build his, this interplay between the comic and scary. 

Richard Gere and Alfred Molina worked too closely together to grant Gere's character the sole impact.  Those two together made The Hoax.

How can you leave out Viggo Mortenson in Eastern Promises?  And, again, both Viggo and Cassel together were sublime; in fact, in rewatching EP, I was blown away by Cassel's performance as the son who'd never measure up to his father, whose latent homosexuality had to be drowned in drink and masked by violence.