Catch 22 for ticket buyers

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2011)

About 45 minutes into this tedious vanity piece you realize it is just that: a tedious vanity piece almost to prove that George Clooney can get any idea funded that he chooses (He is a also producer of this film). While we all like George and his pals running amok in the Middle East wars for the purpose of cinema satire on the ridiculous wars there, it is just not right to make such a loose film and see it deflate at the one hour mark so the viewer just sits there waiting for it to end in the vain hope that it might have a punchline. There is a joke: the ticket price.. the punchline: George earns another few $$million. No joke really. CATCH 22 and SLAUGTERHOUSE 5 and MASH did it all better 40 years ago. Recent cinema skirmishes like THREE KINGS and SYRIANA and other Clooney boys-own love-ins did too. I was left wondering exactly who was acting the goat in this one. JARHEAD remains the best of the recent lot. Watch that again.