Burn After Reading was probably the most underwhelming film I saw this year. I laughed a couple of times, and I love those actors, but I didn't think it was as good as most people said it was.
I was hoping it would be funnier than it was bloody.
It was not an "All Out" Comedy...
I was dissapointed.
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I thought it was brilliant. Clooney's invention was totally amazing - thought I would die. Pitt was fantastic. Malkovich and McDormand were a little predictable, but still good.
I did think the movie took an ugly turn once Pitt's character was killed. The zings at spy movies and the characters' silliness were very, very funny, but when everyone started getting killed off and freaked out the story turned into something a lot more nihilistic. I love dark comedy. I also appreciate movies that don't turn around and slap me in the face halfway through. (Oh, you liked these characters? Now we're going to make them suffer and die pointlessly!) If people had been dying from the beginning because of the ridiculousness of the spy game, great. But they didn't do it that way.
I tried to watch it last night. I was really laughing and enjoying it - especially Pitt and Clooney. Then came that Pitt moment, and I just got up and walked away.
Well it was the Pitt moment that allowed Clooney's reaction (which was hilarious). And let's face it.......noone saw that coming, so that in itself was the point of it.
I thought Clooney was hysterical in this film. The scene when Pitt meets Malkovich in the car and keeps cutting his eyes at him, I almost wet my pants.
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
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