Not when Clooneys as good as he is here.
Clooneys Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert, drafted in by companies to fire their staff.
The routine of travel, the executive lounges, the express checking-in.
Just think of me as you, only with a vagina, she tells him.
They flirt over rental car services and airline credit cards.
hey plan their next encounter hunched over laptops examining their flight plans.
Yet halfway through, both character and actor undergo a transformation.
Stripped bare, its the most intimate and painfully honest performance of his career.
Farmiga is just as good.
Reitman is nothing if not ambitious.
But its at its most beguiling when Farmiga and Clooney share the screen.
Come the third act, Reitman shifts gear again, conjuring a love story fashioned from 60s/70s American cinema.
With aGraduate-style soundtrack he hints at the burgeoning relationship that feels like a first love.
If youre only going to see one Clooney film this year, make it this one.
Rating:
5 out of 5
