definitely better than i thought it was. Excellent cast, wonderful acting from George Clooney. best interpretation about corruption and dirty work around the corporation.. michael clayton is a sheer manifestation of a clever film...one of the best of 2007...
Basically he's a fixer, sorts you out in a pinch. However when he has to help a company cover up that their CEO has gone completely stark raving mad, suddenly he finds things going a little out of sorts and his life in danger.
Tony Gilroy's "Michael Clayton" is a high-powered yet subtle legal thriller in which we begin to have empathy - first for one man deemed crazy by his employer and his closest friend, and then for the friend, who must determine just how crazy his friend and colleague is.
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George Clooney had starred in some great movies (Three Kings, O Brother Where Art Thou, Out of Sight, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck), but I hadn't paid him much mind until I saw this movie. The best performance, in my opinion, comes from Tom Wilkinson, who is delightfully MA...( read more)
Excels in every aspect of filmmaking.
This Guy Over Here picks this as one of the Best Films of the 2000s
C'est un bon film, un défenseur des droits qui s'oppose à trop gros que lui, c'est du déjà vu mais j'aime bien.
Saw this on the plane and it put me to sleep. I just don't buy George Clooney's acting.
Love this film. At first I thought it would be an OK film but it was beyond my expectation. Tilda Swinton perhaps deserve her Oscar but I like Tom Wilkinson here, he's good and George Clooney too.
I heard so many good things about this but fail to feel the enthusiasm about it.
The first half of the film is quite the buzz kill. Very boring and drawn out.
I understand that this part of the film is all about character development but......DAMN!
It does redeem itself towards...( read more)
too boring to watch... i was distracted doing some other things, probably will give better ratings once i've seen it again, when i'm NOT really doing some other things... =pPp
A good original thriller, nicely directed by Gilroy and well acted by the cast. Clooney is on good form as usual but its Wilkinson and Swinton who really steal the show. Swinton's corporate villain is easily the best female baddie since Louise Fletcher's Nurse Mildred Ratched. He...( read more)
Is there such a thing as an honest lawyer? This movie struggles with that question. Could you defend a company that sell chemicals that poison its customers? This is an interesting movie to watch. I recommend it.
I think I missed the point of this movie but I enjoyed it all the same. The ending was awesome.
A well-developed political drama with good performances throughout, a great script, good pacing and a great storyline, but becomes boring half way through.
62/100
Found it kind of boring and started to lose interest in it but I think i got everything in the end when it picked up. George clooney is still pretty awesome just found this movie to be a little boring.
It's a solidly good movie. There's not a lot of flash and the thrill in this thriller is very subdued which works sometimes...but only sometimes. Really it's the performances by the major actors that make it work. I really loved Clooney's character, he was very layered and intere...( read more)
Gledam prvih sat vremena i nista mi nije jasno, malo pogledam na netu kako se treba odvijat situacija i dodem do samog kraja filma i pomislim kako ovaj triler nisam ni trebala pogledat, a u principu jako volim trilere. Jos kao pravo moja struka lol
Michael Clayton took a while to get going, but once it did it was a pretty good movie. I really liked the ending.
A dull and disappointing Action Thriller, that simply lacked umph and struggled to grasp my concentration.
I was lost for about seventy percent of the time. What went on exactly? So, uh, politics on film are a major turn off for me. Its ultra-realism reminds you that you're supposed to be preparing for your job instead of watching films. But I decided to break a barrier by seeing this...( read more)
A good film with great turns from the actors. Best Picture material? I think not. Movie paces well in the middle when very little is happening and the best scene is saved for the end - old school.
Very slow plot. Story didn't come completely together until the last 5 minutes. No real happy ending.
A remarkably strong, intellectual, and suspenseful thriller- with a conscience. I went in doubting if I would be able to buy George Clooney in such a dramatic role- and was wonderfully surprised. He and the rest of the cast are top-notch, and they're lucky to be supported by some...( read more)
Overall, It's a boring movie.
The ending is quite intensify anyway.
Fantastic acting and well-written script.
Nice score by James Newton Howard!
Worth a watch if you really like a pure, good film.
The 'Fixer's' survival instinct has forced him to take care of dirty deeds, but now the blood on his hands can't be ignored. Clooney is quietly compelling---we all know someone like this---and we watch him conquer his role and the true nature of the man finally has a chance to su...( read more)
A tremendously entertaining and pulse-pounding thriller. It's gripping, riveting, exciting, explosive, genuinely thrilling and all the way exhilerating. Director, Tony Gilroy crafts a magnetic, intelligent and top-notch powerhouse of a film. It's shaply written and terifficly wel...( read more)
You're not gonna be one of those people who goes through life wondering why shit keeps falling out of the sky around them. You have some real steel in you, Henry. Inside. I see it every time I look at you. I see it right now.
truly performance coming from george, he did his ac...( read more)
Very, very good. Michael Clayton is both an extremely rich dissection of the moral dilemmas encountered in corporative dice games AND an elegant, fluidly shot drama. You can tell it's a screenwriter's movie from the top-notch (yet a bit too pointy) dialogue to the unusual attenti...( read more)
Crisp and impressive, this professional lawcase issue reveals the workings of in- house fixers, who worship the motto of adjustment of truth.
Gives a realistic and disheartening depiction of the exploitation of public faith for profit making motives by firms.
Very good, kept me watching it all the way through, even though the interactions between characters are complex.
"You're so fucked. Here let me get a picture while I'm at it."
Academy Award nominations for directing, acting, writing, movie. So basically one of "The Movies" of the year 2007. Well, Oscars don't make films great, they're just awards that give some publicity but I'll admit the...( read more)
A bit overrated, surely, but this movie still offers a surprisingly interesting look at what lengths people will go to to get things done.
Full review coming soon...
I put off watching this for months, just thought it was going to suck, boy was I wrong.
loved it! makes you question a few things . well played my all the actors . even funnier that one of them looks like one of our ladies in government .. the bad dress sence, hair and all LOL
