Sad, Depressing, World-view

Rating: 5/10 (19 December 2009)

If I were a young person in hopes of having a decent relationship with the opposite sex, I would have left this movie feeling terribly depressed. The only characters who appeared to have any semblance of a good relationship were the two characters getting married. And then you had to worry about them when the groom wants to opt out. If I were a middle-aged person who had lost my job, or was afraid of losing my job, I would be terribly depressed. Seeing people sob, berate, and threaten to kill themselves over their job losses is not something that I find uplifting. Name one redeeming thing this movie has to offer, besides some nice editing/music sequences, etc. It promotes and underscores: life without relationships, sex without connections, marriage without devotion, love without commitment, jobs without futures, and futures without hope. It's dressed up to look pretty, but it's all empty underneath. I wonder if Clooney's character ever wished his plane would crash. I certainly would.