After the Bear had read several critiques of the Coen Brothers "Burn After Reading", the tendency was to feel "big letdown" after "Old Country For Old Men" but being a "coen head", I just had to take a peek at their new production and though it's not their greatest, I liked it plenty!
Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post wasn't too kind to the film but one thing we both agreed on: Brad Pitt is hilarious working with Frances McDormand in a Washington D.C. health club and with Pitt and McDormand hoping to reap rewards for information found in a lost memoir of a fired CIA lower eschelon spook, they dance there way around the nation's capitol eventually finding there way to the Russian Embassy where they encounter whatelse somber Russkies!
By the way, the CIA guy is none other than everyone"s favorite wierdo John Malkovich!
Everybody's sleeping with everybody and word ..... is employed at record breaking pace so for you people who get the shakes when you here the word, this flick is not for you. When will we Yanks get over our sexual bugaboos and enjoy life a bit? Are we really holier than the rest of the world?
There are too many of my favorites cavorting around in this one for me not to like "Burn After Reading." Clooney, Swinton, McDormand, Malkovich, Pitt, what more can I say and you know they are loving every minute with the boys directing. Actually I'm told they take turns being the top honcho. Why can't we have a few belly laughs with our friends those nutcases, the Coens without trying to dissect the meaning of life? Thank you Joel and Ethan for all those old familiar places!
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