Michael Clayton?

[MFD00M]

Yay or Nay?
No spoilers please.

 

[Qonfused]

I tried watching it, but I fell asleep. Dunno if that's because of the movie or I was just damn tired.

 

[2Fast4U]

Yay if you like movies like Syriana, nay if you like entertaining movies.

 

[Dan]

It is very entertaining, just not in an in your face explosions movie (okay there is one explosion). Basically if you are intelligent (able to understand things that are shown to you but not shoved in your face) and have an attention span of more than 10 seconds it is an amazing and forceful movie. But if your mind wanders when you go 5 minutes without seeing giant fighting robots then no, you wouldn't like it. And either way it has a great sound track and very dramatic cinematography.

 

[StardogChampion]

It's pretty boring for the most part. It likes to think it's an intelligent movie, when nothing interesting actually happens for the most part.

 

[Raziaar]

I really liked the movie.

 

[Dan]

It's pretty boring for the most part. It likes to think it's an intelligent movie, when nothing interesting actually happens for the most part.

...nothing exciting happens? I don't know what kind of thrill ride your life is, but I would describe it as an exciting series of events. It doesn't have jet planes, machine guns, robots, kung-fu, or sharks, but if anything, it is more exciting because of that fact that it is true to life and visceral.

Without giving spoilers about it: It is a movie about personal integrity and keeping the individual alive within the cut-throat culture of amoral corporations. Clayton is trying to keep his head above water the whole time. But in the end, he orchestrates one good deed in the short time of instability where titanic corporations are fighting and falling and merging.

It is a dark movie with a very intense sound track and a few big jolts. George Clooney is great. He doesn't have his usual suave attitude and cheeky grin, instead he looks more like a hollow man that has been worn out by a lifetime of bad deeds.

 

[Harryz]

Dan pretty much summed it up for me, my favourite thriller that I've seen this year.

 

[StardogChampion]

It's not really a thriller since there are no thrills. It also has pointless stories with his restaurant, the relationship with his son and gambling problems.

Some of the story points are hilariously dumb too (especially the horses part):

Spoiler

Quote: This narrative laxity is the rule rather than the exception, and as the film rolls on one notices the plot's increasingly large holes.

The whole picture depends on Clayton's son calling Wilkinson's character and telling him about a book he liked, on Clayton then recognizing a copy of that book in Wilkinson's character's loft, on his paging through the book and then finding an extremely important receipt tucked inside.

Another plot point requires Clayton's brother to be a police detective, while another insists that Clayton stop his car while driving through the country to look at some horsies. Perhaps he has never seen horsies before.

I'd rather watch Erin Brockovich if I want a good movie about a big corp.

 

[Fliko]

It's a good movie. Nothing special, but it was pretty good.