X

Michael Clayton is the fix-it man for a large New York law firm Kenner, Bach & Odeen.


Click to enlarge
Passed over for a partnership position due to his personal gambling habits, which in turn is compounded by a drug addled brother whom Michael has borrowed heavily from a loan shark to cover, things couldn’t get much worse. Of course, they do.

His company are the defense team in a class action suite brought against U-North, a pesticide manufacturer whose in-house lawyer, Karen Crowder, is not only ambitious but will do anything to get the job done. Just as U-North is about to settle the $3 billion lawsuit out of court, Kenner, Bach & Odeen’s lead litigator Arthur Eden has a mental breakdown in court. And so the fun begins.

Michael Clayton is a great study in how human frailties can come in all walks of life, and sometimes it doesn’t matter how successful you are, everybody has the same types of problems.

Clooney is methodic and has taken a risk playing a person who knows he’s not as nice/good as he could be, and Swinton, whose career seems to be going from strength-to-strength, certainly desereved to be nominated for the Oscar, but with such limited screen time, I was surprised she got it (then again, fellow Brit Dame Judy Dench got hers for about 10 minutes work in Shakespeare in Love).

Stand out performances for me were the always reliable Tom Wilkinson as the nutty Eden, while the late Sydney Pollack gave his character a believably subdued nuance that others might have over acted. The ending is slightly predictable, but doesn’t take away from the overall enjoyment of the pic.

BlueAnt 4SQM PumpAirUltra 728x90px DVD Review: Michael Clayton
4Square Media Banner Ads Update at 5 July JSAU05JUL1 Buddy 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
ELX DIG Crosscat Promo 728x90 Mar25 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
Hisense KV BannerAd 728 90 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
FA 979 HN MDF SG14 14gen 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
Px7 S3 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
MOTO 36331576 Q3 Ad Banners 728x90 2 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
Marshall 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
Westan 728x90px DVD Review: Michael Clayton
ChannelNews AZ100 728x90 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
JBL TourPro3 728x90 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
appliance retailer leaderboard may 728x90 Hitachi updated DVD Review: Michael Clayton
AU X8 Banner 728x90 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
BEL2535 BPB024 4SQ Banners 728x90 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
4Square Media Banner Ads Update at 5 July JSAU05JUL1 MR 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
728 x 90 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
Uniden Channelnews SoloX July 2024 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
728x90 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
Arlo July Promo Digital 728x90 2 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
Flick of a switch 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
HAIER Series 600 FLW HPD Pairs 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
GOTHAM 728px x 90px DVD Review: Michael Clayton
Skullcandy 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
728x90 DVD Review: Michael Clayton
250527 SAV Channel news June25 Leaderboard 728x90 1 DVD Review: Michael Clayton


YOU MAY ALSO LIKE