Should Brad Pitt be cast as a Dork?

Rating: 4/10 (24 September 2008)

The couple behind me laughed incessantly, particularly noticeable at the end of the film, while I wondered what they were laughing at.
Brad Pitt is one of my favorite actors of his generation and I have enjoyed most every film that I have seen him in (the major disappointment being Ocean's 11, 12 ,13,14, 15, 16, 17, 18 or at least it seemed that I had to sit through the humdrum of 18 films while only seeing Ocean's 11 and 12). Many male actors have been cast at geeks, dorks, or misanthropes while in their teens or early twenties. Mr. Pitt should never have been cast in such a role at 45.
The only performance worse than Brad Pitt's was that of Tilda Swinton whose performance was one dimensional, that of a harsh and distant wife and lover. If this was reality TV, she would have been voted off the island before the first commercial break.
J. K. Simmons, as the CIA supervisor or director, came through as delightfully wacky reminding me of what made the Get Smart TV series a must see.
More frustrating was the performance of George Clooney, which fell somewhere in the chasm between Good Night, and Good Luck and Three Kings