Clooney was the draw?

Rating: 1/10 (16 January 2010)

What a depressing, unspeakably rotten piece of idiocy. So, the script was hatched in a Malibu palace and everyone present thought it was killer? There were about 10 couples in the theater at the 5:05 feature when I saw the film. And it got A's and B's from the establishment critics? Oh, I forgot. They were in the palace, too. I went home and watched David Zelnick DVD just to wash my brain clean of the residue. The issues of immersion in one's career to the exclusion of everything else, the abysmal sadness of being fired, the callousness of corporate America, using people solely for one's own sexual gratification, the complexity of modern telecommunications/credit card gymnastics--all of this was an accurate reflection of reality. That said, the hollow-man syndrome so ubiquitous in the corporate realm should have had a denouement other than the hollow-ending one.