A weird movie to me

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2010)

I have never heard of any companies hiring out freelance firers to fire people before-not to say that it doesn't exist somewhere, but I have never heard of it...so this is a weird film to me on a number of levels. George Cloony will have no doubt an audience here because of his track record in previous films, but that is not to say it is a stellar performance, in fact I think it is perhaps far from being stellar, as the last line in the film is perhaps one of the most empty sentiments I have ever heard anyone utter, but I will not say what that was as it might reveal to much of the film. There is an interlude with a supposedly female version of himself in the film all full of cool dialogue to show just how cool they are to each other. The connection is ultimately not real, and in retrospect that is a very unsatisfying moment in the movie. Everybody wants to be cool, or at least be around cool. No cool here. Oh modern life is such an alienating experience with its glass and steel worlds and its access cards and impersonal computers. Most people experience that each day so this film drawing attention to the obvious is perhaps a waste of time also.Is the point that relationships suck? Some do, some don't. So what? Well, I guess it is sort of a so what for this movie from me.