Its Disappointing To See Great Actors Play In Such Movies.

Rating: 3/10 (11 November 2008)

I, just like the movie, do not know how and where to begin. I had been looking forward to this movie for over a month since I saw the commercials. George Clooney playing a devious womanizer, Brad Pitt playing an energetic and cooky gym trainer, and John Malkovich playing a bored and life hating ex-CIA agent!!! What could be better?! Well, for starters, any movie other than this one.
What a disappointing and unforgettable shock this movie was to see some of Hollywood's greatest actors play in such a crapping pot of a movie. Instead of everything coming together, this movie seems to fall apart from the beginning. Picture a building in the shape of its own rubble, then that being reduced to more rubble, and you have the plot of this movie.
I can't believe that Clooney, Pitt, or Malkovich are in this movie. Great actors who can do and have done great work end up in a movie that seems to have been written by some disturbed blood obsessed weirdo who had some free time between their "how not to make a film" class and "pointless blood spatters" class. That's another thing, the violence in this movie is so pointless, it has nothing to do with the movie. It's as if the writers, (who, when I heard it was the Coen Brothers became even more disappointed since I like most of their work) just felt as if some blood would do the movie good, without wondering how or why (Sort of like "No country for old men")
The acting was pretty good and somewhat expected from the actors who played here, except for Pitt, but you can't blame him since the script seems to have been put together from a pile of shredded works thrown in the air then glued together randomly. Don't get me wrong though, the acting may've been good, but the characters are so messed up it really doesn't matter.
Finally, the ending, which ironically is the both the best and worst part of the movie. The best because it signifies the conclusion of this crapping pot, and the worst because it doesn't actually exist. Now, it may be hard to understand, I know because I don't fully understand, but to put it simply, there is no ending. It felt like there was another 40 minutes of film coming then someone accidentally snipped the rest of it off and said "Hey, that works, let's leave it like that."
Bottom line, this is a horrible, confusing, and disappointing movie that you'll regret watching, so spare yourself, and don't watch it.