Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, is fired at the CIA, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A diskette falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for elective surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch; then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten the pot, they decide they need more of Osbourne's secrets. Meanwhile, Linda's boss likes her, and H... arry's wife leaves for a book tour. All roads lead to Osbourne's house.
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After their triumphant dramatic success with No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers revert to sophomoric snarky mode in Burn After Reading. A dark goofball comedy about assorted doofuses in Washington, D.C., only some of whom work for the government, the short, snappy picture tries to mate sex farce with a satire of a paranoid political thriller, with arch and ungainly results. Major star names might stoke some mild B.O. heat with older upscale viewers upon U.S. release Sept. 12, but no one should expect this reunion of George Clooney and Brad Pitt to remotely resemble an Ocean's film commercially.
A seriously talented cast has been asked to act like...
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this dvd is superb. Osbourne Cox (played by John Malkovich) is a CIA analyst who quits his job at the agency, after being demoted mainly because of his drinking problem.
He then decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA.
His wife, Katie Cox (played by Tilda Swinton), wants to divorce Osbourne and, at the counsel of her divorce lawyer, she copies many of his personal and financial files off his computer, and on to an optical disc.
Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer (played by George Clooney).
The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer (played by Brad Pitt) obtains the disc from th...
The brisk pace and sharp humor in Burn After Reading is a welcome relief after weeks of witless comedies and overblown action flicks.
This latest offering from the Coen brothers is an outlandish dark farce/spy spoof with some hilarious characters and quotable lines. In the pantheon of Coen movies, this is perhaps most closely related to The Big Lebowski in spirit. (It's no Fargo.)
After their best-picture Oscar for the violent No Country for Old Men, the Coens are back to misanthropic madness.
The goings-on are set in the Washington, D.C., world of espionage. The film's greatest asset is its ensemble of dunderheaded characters, particularly th...
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This isn't one of the Coens' instant modern classics like "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" or "The Big Lebowski", though there were still enough funny moments in this movie to make it worth watching.
I'm giving this a 3 out 5 [SPOILER]
for the scenes where the intelligence agent is updating his boss on the situation and no-one knows what is going on - brilliant
, but Joel and Ethan Coen have already proved that they can be up there with the greats and I for one am waiting to see them back on their best form.
This too is one of my favorite movies. I love the coen brothers. I think it had everything. I love how umm.. Im not sure i just know him as vern shcillinger off of oz I loved how they got it all clusterd up when it was actually nothing.
Something you will never see me write again; a masterful performance from Brad Pitt. Pitt excels at playing idiots. He was a great idiot in True Romance as well, it's every other role that he has trouble with.
Deceptively intricate plot as always from the Coens. Some slapstick, and a lot of humour which is more subtle and will go over some people's heads. Don't watch this film if you thought 'Scary Movie' was funny. You probably won't like it.
I'm not saying anyone who doesn't find it funny isn't smart enough to understand it, I hate when people do that cos' it's BS. But I will say thick people won't get it.
