Burn After Reading is a bizarre film with a whole smorgasbord of top actors and actresses.Two gym employees, Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) land themselves in an unlikely situation when a disk containing the memoirs of a CIA official who has recently left his job, finds its way into their hands. They attempt to blackmail CIA official, Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) but, it doesn't quite go to plan.
Meanwhile, Ozzie's wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) is having an affair with Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) who is a bit of a love rat, to say the least. He later finds himself meeting up with Linda Litzke as she attempts to find herself the perfect man.
Burn After Reading is an interesting, clever and funny film. It develops at a steady pace and, despite all the madness going on in each of the characters lives, their story lines intertwine with one another with ease.
It is a weird and random story filled with weird and random characters but, it is a brilliant watch nonetheless.
I rented burn after reading monday nite. Me and my mum sat down to watch it and we didnt even get half way through. It was awful, not the comedy that we had been promised. Brad Pitt was the only bonus in the film :-)
ReplyDeleteI suppose it is one of those that you either love it or you hate it, I enjoyed it though. Brad Pitt was v. funny.
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