Half-intelligent, half-silly, but great George Clooney

Rating: 7/10 (6 September 2010)

With such a title, and with actors like George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey as leads, you pretty much know where this movie is headed. I expected an intelligent comedy and I did get one for the most part, when the movie didn't wander over to silly territory, which happened all too often for me, and when it didn't get bogged down by unnecessary - and possibly unintentional - drama, which was fortunately just occasional.
George Clooney gives my favorite performance of his yet with this role, which had him doling out both witty and slapstick humor with perfect deadpan-ness. I would've sooner given him an Oscar nomination for this than for any of his dramatic movies. Jeff Bridges is... uninspired casting. This role is too similar to his very memorable one in The Big Lebowski. The casting of Kevin Spacey is quite uninspired as well. I'm quite tired of seeing him as smarmy villains. Actually I think he comes across as smarmy in most roles, which is probably why I never really liked him. Ewan McGregor was in the movie too but as the straight man, he was all but eclipsed by the others and I can't recall any exceptional scenes from him.