The Coen brothers are back after their recent 4 oscar wins with Burn After Reading. This is definitely unlike No Country for Old Men but then again, looking at the brother's track record, few movies of theirs are similar to the rest, save for the witty dialogue. Burn After Reading seems to be a combination of Fargo and The Big Lebowski in terms of plot and wtf moments. There's no need to explain the plot of BAR, you should really just see it for yourself, but the acting is truly what makes this movie great. The actors are all at their best. Clooney plays an awkward womanizer, Pitt plays a confused, slightly-more-than-stupid-but-slightly-more-than-eccentric physical trainer, Tilda Swinton plays the same oscar winning bitch role that she did in Michael Clayton, Frances Mcdormand plays a naive but more keen witted physical trainer in search of funding for body augmentation (plastic surgery, not cybernetics, though that could be pretty cool), and John Malkovich plays a moderately crazed though extremely pissed off recently fired CIA analyst that cooked up the whole plot of the movie. The prize for best on stage presence should be divided among all these characters as they all (except Swinton because she showed nothing new)do an amazing job and prove that they can really act. Though not a main character, J.K. Simmons leaves a fat mark in this movie as having the most comedic performance. Some of his lines were actually hard to hear because his delivery caused the entire theatre to go up in laughter. Burn After Reading is definitely a drama but the amount of comedy in it could bring the genre up for debate, even with Simmon's and Pitt's performances alone. See this movie now, I don't see it winning any oscars but it'll be another title for the Coen Brothers Classic box set.
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