Andrew Ferrier » blackcomedy http://www.andrewferrier.com/blog Economics; Travel; Film; and Technology. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Burn After Reading http://www.andrewferrier.com/blog/2008/10/24/burn-after-reading/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burn-after-reading http://www.andrewferrier.com/blog/2008/10/24/burn-after-reading/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:01:51 +0000 andrewferrier http://www.andrewferrier.com/blog/?p=532 Went to see Burn After Reading with plv last night. It’s a bit of a slow starter, but when it gets going, there are some real solid comedic moments. It’s not laugh-a-minute, and is a little disjointed, but it’s sure entertaining as the plot gets more and more mashed up, and could almost be classed as a farce if it were a little clearer. Indeed, as the CIA boss says at one point:

Report back to me when … I dunno … when it makes sense.

It’s definitely worth the price of admission, and is a Coen brothers pic I actually like (they vary a lot). Brad Pitt and George Clooney both do a good job of playing bozos (Brad’s attempt to blackmail John Malkovich is hilarious), and J.K. Simmons as the aforementioned CIA officer is also very funny.

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