Good God it was Great

Rating: 9/10 (28 April 2009)

Burn After Reading is one of the funniest movies I have seen in recent years. I used to write a great number of movie reviews on IMDb but have fallen out of the habit, and it's so refreshing to view a film so good that it makes me feel compelled to spread the word.
The plot concerns a CIA operative played by John Malkovich whose writings and memoirs from his job fall into and out of the hands of such crazy characters as: paranoid sex-addict George Clooney, ice cold bitch Tilda Swinton, Plastic-surgery-seeking Frances McDormand, and last but not least, hands-down the funniest performance of his career, Brad Pitt as a dim-witted personal trainer.
Pitt steals the show with his perfect delivery and commitment to his role as the very stereotype many have labeled him past and present.
This is not to say by any means he is the sole reason for watching this film, however. All of the actors have such wonderfully wacky characteristics and play off each other so well you'd swear the film was a documentary on the secret, bizarre lives of Hollywood's finest.
They would have had such a hard time making a story like this work if it weren't for the amazing script written by the Coen Brothers. It is an actor's dream to have a script so perfect in plot and dialogue, and it is an audience's treat to have something so fresh presented before them in this era of Reboots, Remakes and Sequels.
Dare I say this..? I almost believe this film deserved an Oscar more than No Country for Old Men.
Burn After Reading is a film that keeps you laughing until the end; a film that you allow to swallow you whole because it is simply too much fun to pass up.
9/10