Burn After Seeing.....

BURN AFTER READING

C.I.A, headquarters Langley, Virginia, that’s a name you get to hear from almost all the action/adventure/mystery genre of movies, Burn after reading steals a similar plot revolving around a CIA official & stolen classified information (I find it ridiculously funny every time I see a movie based on America’s undisputed intelligence organization – The CIA’s integrity being compromised). However ironically this movie is classified as a comedy, which I strongly feel that even by American standard dumb humor is no where funny, the movie has quite a good amount of glints of wit & humor, unfortunately/fortunately not enough to be called a comedy.

A half retard CIA analyst who’s wife sleeps with a treasurer(George Clooney) who goes on to have another simultaneous affair with a sex-starved-appearance-conscious female gym employee (who constantly has been fancied upon by her superior at the gym); manages to discover that his own wife has been cheating on him.

(confusing ? well don’t bother reading it again)

The plot might sound like an ordinary everyday anecdote picked up from any one of the millions of American everyday life. (may be I would apologize later for being so judgmental) however this movie works for two reason, firstly a story line which doesn’t seem too impressive to start off, but the suspense element cleverly twirled into the rest of the nonsense (the infidelity, the sex machine, the morons who work in the gym) and the excessive use of the four lettered words f*** & sh**; secondly the star cast including George Clooney Brad Pitt.

Surprisingly the IMDB rating says 7.6 (considering the heavy American influence on the voting). However for Indian Audiences this would be a 6/10 .