Dr. Watson to Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes, dapper leading man or Cockney villain, Jude Law may be entering the most interesting phase of his career.

He’s 40, and the comic character drama “Dom Hemingway” sees him an a volcanic ex-con whose hair-trigger temper may or may not be of use to him as he seeks to “get what’s owed to me” for his prison stretch, and make up with the daughter he didn’t see grow up.

He put on weight — and not just facial hair — for Dom. And he’s amazing in the part. Dangerous, a sort of Ben “Sexy Beast” Kingsley conversion that changes how you will think about him in the future.

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