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What do you look for in a guy: A voice like Cary Grant’s, a demeanor like George Clooney??s, and a face like Lil Wayne’s (tattoos...
...Hollywood strip could have delivered his seven or so lines just as well, and for a fraction of the price. And Jeff Bridges—who most forget was also an Oscar nominee for “The Contender”—is just painful as Clooney??s drugged-out mentor, Lieutenant Colonel Bill Django. The use of the actors’ names here and not those of their characters is more than mere convention; the people who inhabit “The Men Who Stare at Goats” are so simplistic that there...
...search of cheap sex-humor that distracts from—if not totally ignores—that message.To the extent that “Choke” has one, the movie’s saving grace is its cast. Rockwell, in his second top-billed role after George Clooney??s 2002 sleeper gem “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” fills Victor’s slime-caked shoes with appropriately intelligent and acerbic abandon. Rockwell excels at playing the sane man on the ship of fools, and it’s a testament...
...industry and its relationship to foreign policy in the Middle East underscore the entire film. However, at its heart, the film exposes the radical blindness that clouds the moral judgments of players on different sides of the issue and the ambiguity involved in every action. At one point, Clooney??s Bob Barnes is instructed to assassinate a foreign prince because it is in America’s best interest—an action which damages the future stability of the country and creates incentives for two young men to join a terrorist organization. Such unintentional repercussions demonstrate...
...message of Clooney??s excellent script is in fact anything but gentle: journalists have a responsibility to stand up against governmental abuses, even if that seems to compromise their objectivity. But Strathairn deserves credit for saving the film from tendentiousness, delivering Murrow’s tirades with a calm, persuasive authority that’s unvaried but never wooden...