Burn Before Watching

Rating: 4/10 (22 February 2009)

Burn After Reading is a difficult movie to quantify. It has comedic moments, and I believe that is the overall intention. However, it also features some confusing drama, some of which has no seeming point. I suppose it is in the WTF? milieu of film genre, but it really isn't cerebral. Weird.
Brad Pitt certainly has the best character and performance as the idiotic personal trainer secret agent wannabe. He is quite funny in just about every scene he's in. But that is off set by Malcovich's angry and quirky character, which I can't even remember what the heck happened to him in the end. It is also unclear as what the point of Clooney's character was, perhaps other than being an A-hole. Weird.
Though there are some funny moments, I finished the movie and continued to ask myself: "what was the point of that?" Not quite as bad as 90 minutes of your life you won't get back, but almost. Weird.