Subject: Fast becoming Robert De Zero Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:03 am
Robert De Niro, who seems hellbent of late on capturing The Post’s annual Turkey Award for Worst Actor, certainly got an impressive start with his self-parodying role as a derelict taxi driver in this spring’s “Being Flynn.’’ But that was just a warm-up for the new career low that the once-great Paycheck Bob hits with his super-hammy turn as a supposedly blind celebrity mentalist in one of the most preposterous and incoherent films of 2012, Rodrigo Cortés’ “Red Lights.’’ De Niro’s Simon Silver has resumed bending spoons and curing cancer patients before huge, appreciative paying audiences after a 30-year hiatus following the mysterious death of a journalist who was preparing an exposé.
