http://www.miamiherald.com/tropical_life/story/259803.html
Re: George Clooney’s adult legal drama Michael Clayton.
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Clooney plays the titular character, a ”fixer” for a big-league corporate law firm who is called in to clean up messes that can’t be resolved satisfactorily inside a courtroom. After one of the firm’s star attorneys, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), melts down during a deposition — he strips naked and runs after the plaintiff — Clayton is assigned to nurse Arthur back to fighting shape before the case goes to trial.
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NOT RECOMMENDED!
While watching this I wondered in ADM was going to sue for defamation.
It had imho all the leftist clichés — evil lawyers, evil corporation, evil assassins, the good family farmers, the Irish cop, the Mafia loan shark, … … just to name a few off the top of my head.
Think Brocobitch without the boobs. Well come to think of it there were a lot of boobs in the audience like me who paid two sawbucks to see this muddle.
The fellow who melted down in the movie wasn’t the only one having psychotic breaks. Start at the middle, jump forward, jump back, turn around, jump to a conclusion, and destroy the evil doers.
Think Travolta in Civil Action. Think cookie cutter.
It wasn’t unpleasant to watch — but I didn’t get the connection to the kid’s book.
I don’t understand why he would stop and get out of the car. And, most horses I have known wouldn’t stand dead still side-by-side as something dressed in black approached them.
I don’t understand assassins, who were first portrayed as meticulous in the first murder, just be content to remotely detonate and call it a day. And, why switch modes of killing? I’m sure it’s an area of specialization. Plus don’t tasars leave marks. That’s what the other crime shows claim. (I get all my science from Law’n’Order.)
So it left a lot to be answered and hence a lot to be desired.
Verdict: Wasted $.
p.s., and the ice cream hadn’t been stored right and the bottom was melted. Sigh! Ahh for the movies of the Fifties, where the heroes wore white hats and the popcorn was fresh with real butter.
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