I’m still not sure how I feel about this movie because it was so … bleh. George Clooney plays a “fixer” at a large corporate law firm in New York. This means he is the go to man when something a little beyond legal advice and representation is required. The baddie in this movie is a big corporate giant U-North, whom the law firm is representing, who is involved in a class action suit for releasing cancer causing chemicals. When the lead counsel for defence goes just a little mental and awol Clooney is sent in to save the day.

This movie just didn’t do it for me. Yes it was superbly acted by Clooney and Tom Wilkinson who plays the lead counsel gone cuckoo, in contrast to Tilda Swinton as U-North’s in house big wig lawyer who was a wet fish and pathetic, but otherwise I felt that there was nothing surprising or dramatic in the story-line. All the cards seemed to be shown to the audience at once so I was constantly waiting for the shoe to drop and right to the end it never did. The movie showed you exactly where it was going at all times and that is exactly where you arrived.

As I said in the intro, bleh.