The police authorities at El Segundo Police Department have described actor Mel Gibson as ‘very pleasant’ as he was being booked over the domestic violence conviction he was sentenced with.

The “Braveheart” actor also scored some good points as he voluntarily turned himself in at the California police station at around 9:30p.m. Wednesday night.

“This is just an old case that the judge wanted him to get fingerprinted for,” Sgt. Dean Howard of the El Segundo Police Department said, according to Hollywood Reporter.

The police officer said that the actor did not have to stay long at the police station for the procedure.

Howard added, “We did it real quick and he was out”.

A picture of the actor in the mugshot is described as a stony-faced described by News.NineMSN.com.au as totally different from the smirking, smiling face the actor was wearing when he took a mugshot in 2006 following his DUI arrest.

According to News.NineMSN.com.au the booking for the actor took place at about the same time his film, “The Beaver” has opened at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

The actor’s performance on his latest film has received positive review, said NineMSN amidst all the legal battles the actor had to contend with since 2006.

The movie is directed by Gibson’s friend “Maverick” co-star Jodie Foster, who like Gibson has been getting positive reviews for her work on their latest film collaboration.

“The Beaver' is not a comedy, it’s true, but it is a deft exploration of the ways we struggle to express something as ineffable as depression and the lengths we will endure to save our families,” Drew McWeeny of Hitfix said, according to NineNewsMSN.

A far more clear praises were received by the actor from a critic of Variety.

“The troubled actor delivers a performance very few could pull off,” Andrew Barker of Variety was quoted as saying by NineNewsMSN.

The positive reviews received by the actors in his latest film has raised speculations and shock on how Mel Gibson described as a falling star could actually rise again as his career continued to go downhill after his 2006 run-in with the law.