Entertaining in an odd way, but not as great as it seemed way back when

Rating: 7/10 (15 November 2019)

I watched "Burn after Reading" when it first came out and remember thinking how funny and clever it was; however, for me, a decade later it just doesn't seem as special, unlike say "Fargo" by the Coen brothers. "Burn after Reading" is still much better than most films, but now it seems to meander too much, move in fits and starts, and just generally doesn't seem to flow very well. Again, I don't want to say it's not a fun movie, since the Coen brothers on their worst day are miles ahead of Michael Bay on his best, but it just isn't up there with their best work. Still, I get very tired of special effects driven films, and thankfully this is nothing like that at all. I suppose you could say its absence of a strong plot is part of its plot, which you'll understand after you watch this film. I'm still giving it seven stars, although that's probably a little bit of a stretch. I encourage anybody who wants to watch an odd movie to give this one a shot. But I really do mean an odd, kind of formless film--art mimicking life, I guess.