Another superb Coen Bros. movie.

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2009)

Only the Coen Brothers could pull off such a crazy, goofy, and ridiculous black comedy such as this superb movie. Middle aged people in all sorts of crisis, the CIA, greed, marital infidelity, tying people together until the end, when the characters have no idea they are all connected in a weird bizarre way. It amazes me sometimes the writing style of the Coens, and where they get these wild insane plots, that they continue to make work, movie after movie. This is not a LOL movie, but when one of the gags really hits home, you'll certainly get a good laugh. Brad Pitt is very funny, George Clooney is excellent playing a character caught in the middle of all the confusion, John Malkovich is extremely funny as the foul mouthed CIA analyst who quits his job, Frances McDormand is again dead pan humor at its best, and Tilda Swinton is excellent in a minor role, but a direct tie-in to all the madness.
I absolutely loved the movie, and to me, this is very intelligent dark humor mainly for intelligent movie fans. The Coens are not known for making what you might call, normal movies, "No Country for Old Men" was as close to normal as they will usually ever get. "Burn After Reading" is a Coen classic, and a major league hoot of a movie. Incredibly entertaining, to say the least.