Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who spends his life on the road, or technically in the air. He is just about to reach ten million frequent flier miles when his lifestyle is in danger of drastically changing.
This was done by Jason Reitman, who also did Juno and Thank You for Smoking. So going in I had some preconceived expectations. It didn’t quite live up to those. I thought this would be sharper, edgier, more curt, and more bleak. I was somewhat surprised at how schmaltzy it turned out to be.
The storyline is predictable and methodical, but Clooney is still amazingly entertaining. It has a slightly cynical edge to it but again I was not expecting the sentiment. It still delivered on the ending, however, even if it was conventional.
** ½ Rentable
Rated R (for language and sexual content)
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