Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Up in the Air - 2009 ***



This is a bit of a strange film, and not a typical George Clooney vehicle. Clooney plays a man whose life revolves around flying to different locations and firing members of staff for companies. He lives out of a suitcase, has no proper home and loves spending time in the luxurious hotels that he ends up in. However his boss one day decides (with the help of a new colleague) to scrap the idea of his staff firing in person and sets up an online way of doing so (a bit like Skye). Clooney is dismayed, especially as he feels that he cannot make a proper connection with his clients if he doesn't see them face to face. Also because he has just started seeing a woman he met on one of his last journeys.

Some of it is funny, and Clooney is mildy amusing, but he will never be Cary Grant.

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