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Burn After Reading- A review by
Darrell J Banks
CR 2008
All Rights Reserved Worldwide
Critics rate this a seven. I think it’s a ten. Here’s why.
First the movie features a stellar cast who must have taken a gross to participate in this great Coen Brothers films. While I am a fan of their earlier works (Fargo/ Raising Arizona) I didn’t like No Country For Old Men. ( great acting just too much psycho for me)
This film will in twenty years rank as a classic similar to Kubrick’s masterpiece on the nuclear/cold war. The premise what do spies do after the cold war. Answer they cheat on their spouses and make imaginary stories evolve into the insane world of spy land.
Act 1 Scene 1 to Act 1 Scene 3 move very slow but lead up to a great Act 2.
Frances McDormand wants a new body. Brad Pitt well he’s just existing in the world of the gym.We find ourselves at a party. George Clooney, plays a goofy agent enthralled with Tilda Swinton who plays Malkovich’s wife. We don’t know what she does for a living, but like in other movies she plays the ice princes to perfection. George, is bored, his hobby sex with anything that walks. Later on his basement project.
Theoretically this movie was to portray an analogy of the CIA. Enter ( Sledgehammer ) David Rasche who takes the movies to another level. He portrays a case officer who well doesn’t know what the f. is going on. He’s monitoring, Malkovich a mid level analyst who has just been sacked. John wants to rewrite a book, his memoirs that lead to this classic, subtle comedy. His wife Tilda wants something altogether different.
By Act 3 three things have gone awry. McDormand still want her breast implants. Pitt well, like in Thelma and Louise he obtains the fame and stardom he always wanted.. Clooney finds out that his membership in the spy kingdom requires a transplant elsewhere to a place far far away. No one like in Kubrick’s film really gets what he wants, well maybe the CIA. Oops, I lied but for that irony you will have to see this great film.
10 smoke stacks
J K SIMMONS born in Detroit MI. Yeah baby like WRIF he rocks.
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