Up in the air
Jason Reitman’s previous two films have been pretty good movies to say the least. ‘Thank you for not smoking’ is highly enjoyable and definitely worth checking out and ‘Juno’ is just brilliant. So what about his new one ‘Up in the air’, I was hoping for something as good.
‘Up in the air’ is about Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), he has a job which involves traveling around the country firing people and ‘preparing’ them for the a new start. He spends his life in hotels, living out of a suitcase most of the time and those few days he does spend at ‘home’ a year he hates. Some would see his life as empty and unfulfilled, he has nothing to do with his family, no real friends, he’s alone…. just the way he likes it. All is well with Ryan’s life until his company try and stop him flying thanks to a young upstart with a fancy degree who thinks she can revolutionise the way Ryan does his business.
There so put to ‘Up in the air’ than I’ve given away in that short synopsis, in fact if you look at the synopsis it doesn’t sound a very appealing movie and in fact sounds quite depressing, how ever in Jason Reitman’s hands it becomes a special, well crafted piece of cinema. It is both amusing and full of drama, the characters are given the respect they deserve and there are some pretty serious messages underlying the movie which give it the depth that it requires without getting too bogged down, it’s just what I call a complete movie, it has everything I want.
Clooney puts in a solid performance as the traveling business man in perhaps a deeper role than I’ve seen him in recently. He shows he can act and that just helps the movie just fly by. It’s not just Clooney though, there seems to be a real attention to the casting which means no one looks out of place and all of the characters are believable and very involving, however small the part is. I’ve read that real people who had recently been fired were used in the firing scenes which I suppose is why their reactions are so believable.
If this is what 2010 has to offer in movie land I can’t wait, more of this kind of movie please. I don’t hand a 10/10 often and well I can’t think of any reason not to with this one, it ticks all the boxes. Go and see it I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.
10
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