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Burn After Reading (2008) Certificate 15

Burn After Reading
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Rated 3.0 stars
Average rating
(59%)
 
Starring: Brad Pitt | George Clooney | John Malkovich | Tilda Swinton | Frances McDormand | Richard Jenkins
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Studio: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Run time: 96 mins
Collections: 100 Hot Hits | 100 Most Wanted
Genres: Comedy
Languages: English
Released: February 09, 2009
Also available on: Also Available on: blu_ray

An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness!

When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters! From Joel and Ethan Coen, the Academy Award winning directors of No Country For Old Men and The Big Lebowski, comes this brilliantly clever and endlessly entertaining movie that critics are calling smart, funny, and original.

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Rating of 4 stars out of 5
Time Out

With their hangdog mugs now nestled against the bosom of mainstream Hollywood, indie-crossover darlings the Coen...

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281 out of 346 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5 stars

bfaulk44 from from Bridgwater, 28th April, 2008

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129 out of 147 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 0 stars
What a load of rubbish!!!

Stegsi from , 21st October, 2008

Went to watch this at the cinema last night and is the first time I have ever walked out of a film! It was sooooo boring - from start to the point of leaving (45 minutes). Some people did kind of laugh at the odd bit, but I wasn't sure what they were laughing at. If you are suffering from insomnia then this will surely send you on your way to sleep!

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99 out of 107 people found the following review helpful:

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Rated 5 stars
superb................................

williamsgwynfa from , 30th September, 2008

this dvd is superb. Osbourne Cox (played by John Malkovich) is a CIA analyst who quits his job at the agency, after being demoted mainly because of his drinking problem.
He then decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA.
His wife, Katie Cox (played by Tilda Swinton), wants to divorce Osbourne and, at the counsel of her divorce lawyer, she copies many of his personal and financial files off his computer, and on to an optical disc.
Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer (played by George Clooney).
The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer (played by Brad Pitt) obtains the disc from the gym's custodian, and ascertains that it contains classified government information.
Along with his fellow employee Linda Litzke (played by Frances McDormand), he intends to use the disk to blackmail Osbourne - as Linda needs the money to pay for cosmetic surgery.
They call up Cox in the middle of the night, but he is not receptive to the idea of blackmail.
So when blackmailing him fails, Linda decides to take the information to the Russian embassy.
At the embassy, she hands the disk over to the Russians, promising that she will give more information afterwards, to keep the money rolling in.
Because Linda and Chad don't have any more information, they decide to break into Cox's house, to see what else they can dig up.
Mayhem ensues.................well worth watching !!!!!!!

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55 out of 67 people found the following review helpful:

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Rated 0 stars
Don't waste your time.

A Customer from London, 10th November, 2008

There is only one way to describe this movie... Absolute crap! In fact it is one of the worst movies I have ever watched.

The film is not even remotely funny. If you do find it funny then you probably have an IQ of less than 70 or are extremely easily amused. The story/plot was just idiotic. I actually found it insulting to my intelligence. It was quite painful to watch.

I wasn't impressed by Clooney's performance and Brad Pitt was just wooden; I wasn't impressed with any of the actors performances.

Totally forgettable film. Wish I could get that hour and a half back. It is so bad I couldn't even give it at least one star.

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Most recent reviews

Rated 3 stars
not as good as expected

Loveseverything from , 11th March, 2010

with clooney and pitt I thought there would have been more to this film, pitt was great, wish his part had been bigger.

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Rated 1 stars
Boring !

A Customer from Aylesbury, 8th March, 2010

Was quite disapointed with this film, wouldn't recommend watching even if it was free on TV. Bit pointless and just not very good for a PITT and CLOONEY film.

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Rated 0 stars
BURN AFTER READING

A Customer from HUDDERSFIELD, 7th March, 2010

DREADFUL DIFINITELY WOULD BURN AFTER READING EVEN THO IT WAS GEORGE CLOONEY IT STILL ONLY DESERVES HALF A STAR AND WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS IF POSSIBLE

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Rated 4 stars
Joyful spinning..

huron from from Huddersfield, England, 5th March, 2010

A really enjoyable film which left an impression but perhaps not quite so much to earn 5 stars. Well worth the watch though, especially to see Brad Pitt meet a timely end (a little bit over-acted for his part though I thought). Quite fast paced and a few surprises - not bad at all!

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