peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2011 08 16 BurnAfterReading

Burn After Reading

Tue, Aug 16, 2011./noise/movies | Link

I saw this at the cinema back in 2008 and couldn't remember anything about it. Not the Coen brothers' finest outing, that's for sure. Brad Pitt fails to convince in this moronic role, and both Tilda Swinton and Malkovitch play themselves, or at least conform to their stereotypes. As a riff on the craziness of late Bush II homeland security, this is too heavy handed to really get on board with.