Burn After Reading Review

Overall Rating

There was very little to like, and a lot that was very unpleasant. Only in the second half did the film start to engage and get funny in parts, but that did not make up for the rest which was depressing and in really bad taste. It was not amusing and certainly not charming to watch a bunch of unattractive, shallow married couples all having unfairs behind the backs of their spouses. They even managed to make the gorgeous George Clooney a beardy, sad, bore. The bit about his sex-machine is too horrible to relate. You come out thinking, hoping that the world it not really like this, or headed in this direction. Don't waste your time and money.