2008 Woodie Awards
Movie Review: Michael Clayton
Colleen Sheehy
Issue date: 10/19/07 Section: FUSE
Originally published: 10/18/07 at 10:28 PM EST
Last update: 10/18/07 at 10:27 PM EST
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If you have the mental capacity to pay attention to this movie, you'll like it.
I, for one, ended up confused, and lucky for me my boyfriend was able to explain things for me so that I could follow the movie - which was worth every one of the 119 minutes.
The movie flows in the Tarrentino style, showing the ending part of the movie first, then backtracking throughout the events which led up to the beginning, or, well, end.
George Clooney's character, Michael Clayton is faced with an angry millionaire who had just been part of the hit-and-run - doing the hitting, and the running. Clooney is quickly seen as some type of lawyer, whether it be defense or something else can not yet be determined.
You'll find that Clooney's exact profession throughout the entire movie is in question, which keeps you guessing whose side he's really on.
There is one part of the movie where his NYPD brother, played by Sean Cullen, tells him that the cops think he's working for the law firm while the firm thinks he's working for the cops.
Regardless, Clooney is working for a law firm, whose top client U-north is under some heat.
Apparently the company had been selling products to assist farmers growing crops, while these products were extremely hazardous and caused many deaths in the last six years.
One of Clooney's colleagues (played by Tom Wilkinson) ends up going insane over the case, realizing that instead of defending U-north, he should be persecuting them for all of their wrong-doing.
He then strips naked in the deposition room and craziness ensues. It's funny and sad at the same time.
Wilkinson then ends up having a sketchy phone relationship with a teenager in the Midwest somewhere living on a farm. It's borderline obsession and pretty creepy.
Clooney is caught up in the midst of this. The whole "not knowing who he's working for" gets a little confusing half-way through the movie but it is quickly revealed what his intentions are.
I, for one, ended up confused, and lucky for me my boyfriend was able to explain things for me so that I could follow the movie - which was worth every one of the 119 minutes.
The movie flows in the Tarrentino style, showing the ending part of the movie first, then backtracking throughout the events which led up to the beginning, or, well, end.
George Clooney's character, Michael Clayton is faced with an angry millionaire who had just been part of the hit-and-run - doing the hitting, and the running. Clooney is quickly seen as some type of lawyer, whether it be defense or something else can not yet be determined.
You'll find that Clooney's exact profession throughout the entire movie is in question, which keeps you guessing whose side he's really on.
There is one part of the movie where his NYPD brother, played by Sean Cullen, tells him that the cops think he's working for the law firm while the firm thinks he's working for the cops.
Regardless, Clooney is working for a law firm, whose top client U-north is under some heat.
Apparently the company had been selling products to assist farmers growing crops, while these products were extremely hazardous and caused many deaths in the last six years.
One of Clooney's colleagues (played by Tom Wilkinson) ends up going insane over the case, realizing that instead of defending U-north, he should be persecuting them for all of their wrong-doing.
He then strips naked in the deposition room and craziness ensues. It's funny and sad at the same time.
Wilkinson then ends up having a sketchy phone relationship with a teenager in the Midwest somewhere living on a farm. It's borderline obsession and pretty creepy.
Clooney is caught up in the midst of this. The whole "not knowing who he's working for" gets a little confusing half-way through the movie but it is quickly revealed what his intentions are.
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Anonymous
posted 10/24/07 @ 11:06 PM EST
So what was your final rating?
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