I finally saw Burn After Reading. The movie is quite good. It was fun, the characters were quirky, and the plot didn’t really matter because it was about the interaction between the characters that drove the film. There’s a couple of reasons why I really like this film, and there’s others that knock it down from an A to a B. First off, it makes fun of movies like Crash and Babel which I detested to no end. Words cannot describe how much I hated those films. Burn After Reading makes fun of the whole different-plots-end-up-converging-at-the-end-and-reveal-a-higher-meaning thing. Also, George Clooney and Tilda Swinton were fantastic. 

Couple of things I was not so crazy about was one, Brad Pitt. He was funny, but way over the top. And to be honest I think his character was funny just because it was Brad Pitt. If it would have been anyone else it would not have been that funny. Also, I couldn’t wrap my mind around the fact that the Coen brothers made this film. How do you go from No Country For Old Men to this? I think the few things I find that needed work in this film could have been perfected considering the directors. If they can write characters to perfection in No Country For Old Men, they could have done it here too, and they just didn’t spend enough time with it.

Grade: B

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