Movie to movie George Clooney delivers pretty consistently, as he has done again with Michael Clayton.
Michael Clayton is a corporate scandal thriller, with Clooney playing a lawyer who is the firm’s fixer–he cleans up the messes his clients get into that need to stay off the radar. As the movie picks up he’s doing his thing, but along the way he gets sucked into a real nasty battle between a chemical company and a group of people suing it for producing toxic products. Clooney’s firm reprMovie to movie George Clooney delivers pretty consistently, as he has done again with Michael Clayton.
Michael Clayton is a corporate scandal thriller, with Clooney playing a lawyer who is the firm’s fixer–he cleans up the messes his clients get into that need to stay off the radar. As the movie picks up he’s doing his thing, but along the way he gets sucked into a real nasty battle between a chemical company and a group of people suing it for producing toxic products. Clooney’s firm represents the chemical company.
It’s a complex story with lots of twists and turns, and it requires a close watch to keep up. I’m not sure how I feel about the ending, but the acting and directing is very good (with Tilda Swinton in an award-worthy performance as a corporate shark barely keeping it together), and in all it had me engrossed throughout with me really caring about how it all played out.
Thumbs up.
