The perfect crisis movie

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2010)

Leave it to George Clooney to play the guy who's job is to fire people in the midst of this great economic crisis and make you feel sorry about him. The movie is mature, not a stereotypical cliché, with well thought up situations and believable characters. No one is totally white or totally black, which is the first step in making a good movie in my book. Or a good book, that is :)
In this film he is a hypersailor. I know, I made that up, but it's the perfect metaphor as he flies from place to place doing his job and ending up spending more time in the air than in any other place. He doesn't even own a home or even rent and his greatest pleasure is to make a presentation of how the things you own and the people you know are nothing but dead weights.
Now, this could have been a total screwup, by placing some wide eyed female star to steal his heart and make him realize his mistake of not being a star-crossed lover, not wanting kids or to settle. But it wasn't at all like that. In the end you are left to draw your own conclusions and the whole experience was constantly pleasant. Good movie. I recommend it.