Rating of
3.5/4
Never f**k with someone who's a relible fixer.
Indyfreak - wrote on 09/01/14
Michael Clayton is a great recent example of that increasingly rare film that is entertaining thanks not to special effects or explosions or action sequences but dialogue and character development. When we first meet all the important characters, we have little idea of how things will turn out for them or what moral stance they'd take in the end, if any. It wastes little to none of its two hour running time. Few movies do this sort of thing anymore. It's unfortunate that this movie lost Best Original Screenplay to some hipster fluff about teen pregnancy. Paradoxically, it's little that we've seen before but it's so intelligently crafted and masterfully directed that it just seems so much more deserving. And yes, the acting is outstanding all across the board as well.
