Burn After Reading
Julia from Dublin, 03 Mar 2009
Loved it! I am a HUGE Coen brothers fan, so my opinion might be a bit suspicious... They have a great sense of humour and it's just hilarious how they make fun of the CIA, our obsession with our image etc. Great movie! Brad Pitt is in my opinion one of the best actors of our time - that man call pull anything off. Comedy, drama, action! Frances is great as always and John Malkovitch is histerical!! The Coens are dialog geniouses!!
3 people out of 4 found this review helpful
Burn before watching!
Beverly from Dublin, 03 Mar 2009
I don't know what the Coen Brothers were trying to achieve with this movie. I have liked some of their past work, 'O Brother where art thou' is a gem of a movie. But 'Burn after reading' was so inconsistant, and the characters so one dimensional that i really didnt care what happened to any of them!. With such a stellar cast it beggars belief that the only consistant things that the Coen brothers have achieved with this film, is to get awful hammy performances out of great actors,and give the
2 people out of 9 found this review helpful
Burnt after watching
Daza from Dublin, 25 Aug 2009
Great - true farse. I get worried when I see such a good cast it normally falls way short. I didn't know it was a Coen brother film beforehand and I'm glad as expectations would have been sky high.
Yer one form Fargo cracks me up. Pitt is a total spa - brilliant. I love John Malkovic - he's just got that edgyness. Clooney is ok he's always just surfing on the edge between funny and annoying in comedies but I accepted him this. Black comedy at it's best. Yeehaaa!
2 people out of 4 found this review helpful
Meh
Christopher from Galway, 17 Feb 2009
I'd heard some conflicting reviews but with this cast and the Cohen brothers we gave it a chance. You could see what they were going for, but they didn't quite pull it off. Not really a black comedy, not really a drama. We saw this Valentine's night, a story about losers cheating on each other who think they've stumbled on some top secret information. All in all it was uneven and unsatisfying.
2 people out of 3 found this review helpful
An enjoyable quirky farce
Maggie from Mayo, 03 Jun 2009
A great film. A farce about the ineptness of the CIA, as well as people's relationships with each other, and with other people. Some very witty lines and a great performance from Brad Pitt as a bit of an idiot. Clooney, Swinton and rest of cast good too. One of the best films we've seen for a long time, a quirky and enjoyable comedy, with one or two shocks.
2 people out of 3 found this review helpful
burn before watching !!!
Colette from Kilkenny, 01 Mar 2009
for such an impressive cast, and directors who produced such a gem as 'Fargo', I was really really dissapointed with this film. the plot was rubbish and i would go as far as saying the acting was pretty bad too, although i realise that this is what may be intended. im not explaing story as i would not recommend this film.
2 people out of 5 found this review helpful
C class fare from Coen Bros
paul from Cork, 01 Jun 2009
We begin as with pretty much all Coen brothers films with a real left of centre idea for a film. This attitude to story telling has served them well through out the years with such classics as Fargo The big Lebowski & the astounding O brother where art thou? However for every great Coen film we have a real stinker to accompany it. Ie Blood simple, The lady killers & The hudsucker proxy. This I m afraid falls into the relms of the later. There is just not enough here to merit a movie
1 people out of 5 found this review helpful
Forgettable
Shane from Meath, 24 Aug 2009
The trailer was the most alluring of any I've seen in several years - unlike many, it told you nothing of the plot and left you hungry for more. However, the film is utter rubbish - up there with Intolerable Cruelty among the Coens' worst, although not just as bad as that mess. The only reason I welcome it is that the Coens, so dazzling with No Country For Old Men, can now move on to their next serious project.
1 people out of 2 found this review helpful