Starts slow but goofily entertaining

Rating: 6/10 (24 August 2009)

Overall I liked "Burn After Reading". Some of the performances, notably Brad Pitt, really pulled the movie up from being a bore. The movie suffers from meandering for about the first 30 min or so where little seems to happen, and the characters seem somewhat uninteresting. Once the storyline picks up and the main conflict and motivation of the movie come into play the movie gets much better. This is in no small part to pretty much every scene between Frances McDormand and Pitt being fun. Being a satire, the Cohen brothers do a pretty good job putting together sharply defined characters in the meld of "Fargo". However this movie doesn't have as strong a plot/storyline. Despite that, lightly recommend it as an evening dinner flick or like such.