Michael Clayton

George, George, George, when did you get so good at this whole acting thing. George Clooney is one of those guys that your like, man how long as he been acting, then you look at his filmography and your like wow, this dude has been acting for a while. And not only that, but the man makes pretty good movies. This was not exception, in fact this was definately near the top of his list, if not his best work, which it very well maybe.

Michael Clayton is a janitor at one of largest most powerful law firms in the world. And by janitor I mean attorney that legally cleans up all the messses other attorneys and their really, really, really wealthly clients make. Michael has made a living out of being able to undo what other dumber more carless attorneys do. This is a niche that Michael has carved out for himself and in the world of corporate law, this niche is as close to tenure as you can get in a law firm.

This film features Michael setting out to clean up the mess of one of his long time friends and a giant at the law firm, Arthur Edens, played by the uber talented Tom Wilkinson. Michael sets out to clean up Arthur's mess, but when Arthur seemingly kills himself Michael sets out to finish the work that his friend Arthur started. Which is taking down one of their major clients for really grimy business practices.

The story is strong, lots of twists and turns and u-turns and suspense and just really good things happening on screen, but I can't say enough about how well acted this peice was. Everyone, I mean just everyone was gold, Tilda Swinton, playing lead council for the grimmy argicultural company that has poisoned people, Sydney Pollack, playing one of the partners at the firm, Tom Wilkinson I already mentioned and of course Mr. Clooney. I don't know if he is getting Oscar buzz and really that doesn't matter all that much to me, but he should, the dude was just money, for two hours he was on, he never missed not once.

You would be crazy if you don't stop reading this right now and go get this movie... ok if you have just come back from wherever you get movies get ready to enjoy one of the best movies of the year. If you haven't left yet let me make it easy for you.

GRADE - A