Burn After Reading

I heard some bad things about this movie, but I actually enjoyed the heck out of this movie. It was hilarious and intelligent and John Malkovich yelled through most of it. A cheating wife pulls a bunch of financial and governmental information onto a disc after her husband quits his job at the CIA. The disc gets left in a gym and two incompetent, but hilarious people try to get the X-CIA guy to pay to get it back. Meanwhile one of the gym workers is seeing the X-CIA guy’s wife and things get zany and hilarious. The Coen brothers pack a lot of hilarious layers of plot into one story and then simply summarize it by briefing the CIA chief J.K. Simmons – who’s hilarious. George Clooney is ahilarious sex addict/inventor/adulterer, but he’s hilarious at it and perfectly believeable in the role. Brad Pitt plays Chad (which we all know is a nerd name in the U.S. [but I hear it’s very classy in Britain]) who is this way optimistic and flighty borderline-fruity gym instructor who doesn’t know the first thing about blackmail. If you like either John Malkovich or the Coen brothers films, then watch this film. I think it’s one of their better ones.