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| Michael Clayton | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  214 reviews
Sales Rank: 11019
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 120
ASIN: B00149KENO
Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 2007
Release Date: October 20, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 Worst movie I have seen in years. January 23, 2008
10 out of 51 found this review helpful
These two people who rated this movie 5 star must be speaking of a different movie than the one I viewed with two friends. It was the most boring movie I have ever seen. I kept waiting for something exciting to happen which never did. I still haven't figured out exactily what a "janitor" is. As for Clooney's acting I never observed anything that would make it special. If you see this movie I think most of you will agree with me and my friends.
Bark! Bark! Avoid this DOG! March 17, 2008
9 out of 21 found this review helpful
Reading through some of the other reviews, I found myself wondering, "Did I watch the same movie?"
This movie was ridiculous. Boring. Horrific Editing. Predictable. Boring. Stereotypical. Boring. One-dimensional characters.
Oh, and it's boring.
WARNING: SPOILERS!
Horrible editing. I've seen better edited movies on Youtube.
Apparently, huge chunks of the movie vital to the plot were mistakenly left on the floor of the editing room. WHY did Michael Clayton get out of his car to go look at some horses? Why?!? This pivotal point in the movie made absolutely no sense. It was certainly not in-line with his character, who should have asked, "Horses? What horses?" as he drove by at high speeds in his Mercedes Benz.
That scene made absolutely no sense.
Another annoying editing process was that people would just randomly pop up in this movie. I have some experience in forensics/legal world (I've been an expert witness on several occasions), and I was hard pressed to know either: (1) who these people in the room were; or (2) what was going on. My wife (who has no legal experience, but loves legal thrillers in both book and movie formats) was completely lost at times.
And what about the subplot with Clayton's son and his fantasy book? That thread at least looked like it had some promise, but again, the editing dropped that subplot like a ton of bricks (Yeah, there was a highlighted book in Arthur's apartment, but SO much more could have been done with that book ...)
As for the actors/actresses ...
George Clooney continues to play George Clooney. The child actor who played his son acted circles around him. Clooney's character is a vile person who has little to no ability to relate emotionally to his son (notice he never actually touches his son except in one scene ... to basically push him out of some relatives' house). I had little sympathy for Michael Clayton by movie's end.
Tom Wilkinson (who I think is a wonderful actor ... very under-rated) did the best he could with the garbage script he was given. As a mental health professional, it continues to gall me that mental illness is continued to be portrayed in such a medieval mindset.
Tilda Swinton's role wasted a very good actress. Her character made no sense, unless the script-writer was trying to portray a schizophrenic barracuda with anxiety issues. She is "hard" enough to order two assisinations, but then falls to pieces when confronted by Michael at the end. Her character was a throwback to sexist portrayals of women from the 40's and 50's ... only done with less aestheic appeal.
I could keep writing my objections, but I've wasted enough time with this junk.
Do yourself a favor. Skip this movie.
 NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE AND DESERVEDLY SO ! January 22, 2008
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
For the first half hour of this picture I spent my time trying to understand just what was going on and fighting off falling sleep, good thing I succeeded as Michael Clayton turned out to be one of the best pictures of 2007. It reminded me a little bit of "The Firm" which I've watched a bunch of times. George Clooney is in his best role ever and things turn out to be very different than they appeared early in the movie. Highly recommended.
F... zzzzzzz, f... zzzzzzz, f... zzzzzzz February 20, 2008
8 out of 29 found this review helpful
Bored me to death. The constant use of the "F" word didn't help much either. If I could have, I would have walked out on this one within the first 5 minutes.
Decent performances but BORING! February 26, 2008
8 out of 19 found this review helpful
Talk about waiting for something to happen that never does. This film takes itself so seriously while pandering to numerous law movie cliches that have been done before and done much better. Clooney and Wilkinson are good, but when aren't they? The script was all over the place and the film had no focus. I'd rather watch CSPAN than sit through this again. Another reviewer made a great point. It seems nowadays films are made for 2 extremes, on one side for people with a 2 second attention span and the other for highbrow Latte sipping cinefiles. This film is bloody boring. End of story.
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