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Movie Review: Michael Clayton
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By Ron Wilkinson Oct 5, 2007, 15:39 GMT
Failing fixer Clooney is great but has to fight for center stage next
to supporting actress Tilda Swinton as the ethically maimed corporate
attorney. Add Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollock and a dynamite screenplay
and we have the thriller of year.
Having scored big as the screenwriter for all three “Bourne Identity”
box office bonanzas, Tony Gilroy saw two opportunities instead of just
one. The first opportunity was to break another top-notch screenplay
on a viewing audience hungry for mystery thrillers. The second
opportunity was to break into directing. emo style unleashing his new hit
“Michael Clayton” he made good on both. The result is a first rate
thriller in which newbie director Gilroy is graced with top-notch
talent.
George Clooney is an actor you either love or hate. The majority of
film-goers love him and they will not be disappointed in his work in
this film. After “Syriana,” “Good Night Good Luck,” “O Brother, Where
Art Thou” and a dozen other box-office successes Clooney is solidly
cemented into the top of whole life insurance heap of American popular cinema. Plus he
shares with new-comer director Gilroy the experience of breaking into
the wheelhouse in film making and having more control of the final
product, for better or for worse.
Like his directorial debut “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” and his
latter day war movie “Three Kings,” Clooney’s Michael Clayton imprinted playing cards an
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the right screenplay and director to make those flaws so outstanding
in their depth and breadth. His characters can perform the most
unbelievable feats of derring-do and then be finally befuddled by the
smallest weakness. Doesn’t this just sum it up?
As Clayton, Clooney is that most-fabled of American corporate
personalities, the “fixer.” He is the perpetual non-commissioned
officer, the leader who can’t stand to wear the uniform. He is a
talented professional who spends his life trying to be something
else. He is self indie fashion but there streetwear style style in his defeat, and he
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Alpha-female agribusiness lawyer Karen Crowder many insure quote Michael Clayton’s
polar opposite. Played to the jumbo playing cards by chinese lessons chicago Swinton (“Chronicles of
Narnia,” “Deep End”) she lives a life of quiet desperation. Although
always winning, she never does it with style. In fact she is a
walking steady-state nervous breakdown. A high-flying robot, a black
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guided mostly by fear. She is guilt-ridden over how much she is paid
and she is guilt-ridden over what she must do.
This is an outstanding performance by Swinton, probably better than
Clooney’s. But she has auto insurance more advantage because her character is so much
more dysfunctional.
Oscar nominated Tom Wilkinson (“In the Bedroom”) uncorks another fine
performance as the top-notch trial lawyer representing Karen Crowder’s
firm who finally decides he has term life insurance enough. Or, rather, he decides to
go off his meds and make a statement. Like Swinton’s character, he is
pushed past the limit of rationality. But he breaks and runs
(literally) naked through the streets denouncing his job, the world
and all the people in it. Great acting with help from a great
screenplay.
Last but not least is Oscar holding director Sydney Pollack (“Out of
Africa”) who had to make a tough decision to break free of his
considerable producing load to take the part of Marty Bach, Michael
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things are getting bad very fast. It is just no fun to make a million
bucks a year and have a view office on 6th Avenue any more. Pollack
chinese chicago apparently so impressed with Gilroy’s screenplay (which Gilroy had
kept for himself to direct) that he committed to take the part. No
one should miss this rare opportunity to see Pollack in the saddle.
One of the best mystery thrillers of the year. It will be tough to
match the combined skills of the cast and crew on this one.
Release: October 5, 2007
MPAA: Rated R for language including some sexual dialogue.
Runtime: 119 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
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