Quickie: Not worth the 200 bucks in a theatre. Get a DVD.
Yada Yada:
MC is an okay film. It’s certainly not deserving of the hype considering that neither the subject nor the treatment is new. The end resolution is surprisingly flat and the turnaround of the kind you see in really simplistic films.
You have a ‘fixer’ who works in a firm of lawyers without actually going to court himself. He’s called either the ‘miracle man’ or the ‘janitor’ but when a senior counsel flips he starts off a chain of events that make Michael question what he’s cleaning up and whether this is what he gave up the courtroom for.
Some angles were rather forced to me – the whole Arthur and Realm + Conquest highlighted notes. That didn’t point Michael is any direction other than get him the bill for the photocopies.
What worked for me were the character and his journey – his debt that needs to be paid off, his relationship with his brother and son, and a certain despair that cloaks him even as he does what he does best.
The person I went with thought that George Clooney was as always – himself. But I disagree. When I watch a Clooney film I know that it’ll turn out alright for him since he’s got such a cocky arrogance. He’s never any other way. You expect him to sail through. This is the first time I felt that things aren’t going to go his way.
Watch it when the movie scene is dull. Right now there’s too much happening in theaters for Michael Clayton to be top of your list.
Length: 2 hours
Yada Yada:
MC is an okay film. It’s certainly not deserving of the hype considering that neither the subject nor the treatment is new. The end resolution is surprisingly flat and the turnaround of the kind you see in really simplistic films.
You have a ‘fixer’ who works in a firm of lawyers without actually going to court himself. He’s called either the ‘miracle man’ or the ‘janitor’ but when a senior counsel flips he starts off a chain of events that make Michael question what he’s cleaning up and whether this is what he gave up the courtroom for.
Some angles were rather forced to me – the whole Arthur and Realm + Conquest highlighted notes. That didn’t point Michael is any direction other than get him the bill for the photocopies.
What worked for me were the character and his journey – his debt that needs to be paid off, his relationship with his brother and son, and a certain despair that cloaks him even as he does what he does best.
The person I went with thought that George Clooney was as always – himself. But I disagree. When I watch a Clooney film I know that it’ll turn out alright for him since he’s got such a cocky arrogance. He’s never any other way. You expect him to sail through. This is the first time I felt that things aren’t going to go his way.
Watch it when the movie scene is dull. Right now there’s too much happening in theaters for Michael Clayton to be top of your list.
Length: 2 hours
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