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| Michael Clayton | 
| Category: Movie
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Avg. Customer Rating:  215 reviews
Sales Rank: 11355
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 120 minutes
ASIN: B00149KENO
Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 2007
Release Date: October 20, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 All the hype for this? April 19, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I saw the previews, i thought it would be a good movie. The pace was slow, and the plot was predictable. Some good acting, but not much else. I usually like these types of movies, but this one I did not.
Good entertainment April 18, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great movie to have an entertain time. One of the best actions movies I saw lately.
Interesting film; Clooney is terrific! April 18, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
If it wasn't for the focus and assured performance by George Clooney, this film would've been baffling, at best. There are some time-shifts that are totally unexplained. Tony Gilroy's direction certainly kept the film intriguing at most levels, and Tom Wilkinson was remarkable in his supporting role. Tilda Swinton's character was not well-written, and a very complex character at that. There's no question that she's a brilliant actress, but there were some puzzle-pieces missing here. (That Oscar should've gone to Amy Ryan). So, my opinion is that "Michael Clayton" provides a lot of interesting tension and great acting, but the final result left me disappointed. In an effort to understand the film, I watched the DVD commentaries, by director Gilroy and his brother, James, screenwriter. There was nothing said about development or motivation; rather, gratuitous niceness regarding the players involved.
 Slow movie plot detracts from great acting performances April 17, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Michael Clayton received several Oscar nominations and features a star studded cast, so of course it must be judged accordingly. Is this movie worth the hype. I love George Clooney, in spite of the fact that I disagree with about everything he says politically. He's a great actor. He's great again as the star in Michael Clayton. Michael Clayton is a lawyer for a big firm whose biggest client happens to be U-North. U-North has been involved in a class action suit for six long years. Tilda Swinton plays Karen Crowder, U-North's in-house cousel. Authur Edens (played incredibly well by Tom Wilkinon) is the conflicted leat attorney in U-North's fight agaist the class action suit.
When you get right down to it, this movie is a legal thriller. The plot gets thrown to you in pieces. The movie opens with a few scenes then backtracks to four days earlier. As a viewer, I wondered a lot what was going on. The movie got the suspese right, but unfortunately treated every scene like a supsense scene. I spent a lot of time wondering what was going on. Michael Clayton is a fixer that handles the firm's biggest problems. He has gambling problems, a kid that he sees occasionally, and a brother who has lost a lot of money to some thugs that Clayton is trying to repay. Arthur is having doubts about the case he is trying to win and has gone off his medication. Is he going crazy, or does he know what he's doing. Oscar winner Tilda Swinton's Karen Crowder, as U-North's counsel, will do anything to win.
I had a lot of problems with this movie. It was incredibly slow, and the entire movie seemed evasive. It couldn't just come out and tell the story. The acting was top notch, except for Tilda Swinton. She seemed to play a one note character as a woman constantly in physical pain about the decisions she had to make.
I was glad to see a "traditional" movie like Michael Clayton nominated for an Oscar instead of the usual foreign or left-wing politcal drivel that the general public never sees. However, Michael Clayton just doesn't seem like that good of a movie. Maybe I'm missing something, but in spite of the great acting and directing, the story just seemed to plod along and never connect with the viewer.
 Clayton is no Bourne April 17, 2008
Don't go into this thinking it is a "Bourne Identity" movie and you may get through it. It is more along the lines of "Broadcast News" and "Pelican Brief" but a fair amount of time is spent showing Michael with his dysfunctional family or doing what he does best, fixing things. Not a bad movie but I had some trouble sitting still when he was with his family. There are definitely some exciting parts, mostly near the end when he is running for his life with information on a dirty large company trying to cover up the truth by killing anyone that has knowledge of their polluting the water. Unfortunately although I enjoyed it I felt like I had seen most of it before. If you enjoy dramas about lawyers you will probably enjoy it. Good quality DVD with fair replayability.
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