An exceptional thriller centred around key players during a crisis within the machinery of big business (a law firm in this instance) and the parts they play in trying to prevent the wheels from coming off.
The strengths of this moving are the strong and wholly believable characters underpinned by a great script delivered excellently by the entire cast. Although the story itself is nothing new the sum of the remaining parts push this thriller into the top band for such films.
All members of the cast are superb. George Clooney deservedly wins plaudits as the flawed 'fixer' at the centre of the unfolding drama, whose own personal problems are no easier to solve. Tilda Swinton puts in a great performance as the powerful corporate lawyer who starts out perhaps a little out of her depth before her character soon finds herself sinking fast into the murky world where criminality meets the corporation.
However for me special praise should go to Tom Wilkinson. He usually turns in a fine performance whatever he's in but here he is understated and superb. As a legendary hard-working bulldog of a lawyer with sporadic mental breakdowns Wilkinson never comes near to the one-dimensional spitting and twitching 'crazy' person so often seen on film and as the critical player in the drama is crucial to make the story work.
This film won't change the world and the story has been seen before - but that is about all I can think of as a criticism, the rest is as good as cinema should and can be.
The strengths of this moving are the strong and wholly believable characters underpinned by a great script delivered excellently by the entire cast. Although the story itself is nothing new the sum of the remaining parts push this thriller into the top band for such films.
All members of the cast are superb. George Clooney deservedly wins plaudits as the flawed 'fixer' at the centre of the unfolding drama, whose own personal problems are no easier to solve. Tilda Swinton puts in a great performance as the powerful corporate lawyer who starts out perhaps a little out of her depth before her character soon finds herself sinking fast into the murky world where criminality meets the corporation.
However for me special praise should go to Tom Wilkinson. He usually turns in a fine performance whatever he's in but here he is understated and superb. As a legendary hard-working bulldog of a lawyer with sporadic mental breakdowns Wilkinson never comes near to the one-dimensional spitting and twitching 'crazy' person so often seen on film and as the critical player in the drama is crucial to make the story work.
This film won't change the world and the story has been seen before - but that is about all I can think of as a criticism, the rest is as good as cinema should and can be.
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