urt Loder of MTV on Heath Ledger's performance in
Brokeback Mountain:
"But it's Heath Ledger's performance as Ennis -- a man so beaten down by loneliness and poverty that he can barely speak, or raise his eyes from the ground to attempt a conversation -- that raises
Brokeback Mountain to the level of tragedy. Ledger has been stuck in some dumb movies in recent years (
A Knight's Tale, The Order), but he was an offhand delight as a SoCal stoner in
Lords of Dogtown earlier this year, and he frolics hilariously through the upcoming
Casanova. Here, though, he stands revealed as an actor of breath-taking gifts, and his final scenes at the end of this movie are the most deeply and
grievously moving that I've seen this year. Don't miss them."