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Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

grantss Chuck Barris is a successful TV producer and presenter. Behind this façade lurks a secret - he is a CIA assassin.George Clooney's directorial debut, and it's a great one. (Also worth noting that the screenplay was written by Charlie Kaufman, of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation fame). Excellent movie, mixing humour and drama. Plot is superb - you're kept guessing at what is real and what is not, and where it all will lead. The movie, however, is made by the acting of Sam Rockwell. His performance is mind-blowingly brilliant.

Sky Diver Who is writing these reviews... New York elitists who are trying to get a gig as a reviewers? I've seen shorter reviews for "Gone with the wind". This piece of crap is not worth a paragraph, but I'll let the Trivia section do the talking: "David O. Russell was offered the film to direct but turned it down, deciding "that it was just not about anything but a guy who liked to f*ck girls and say that he shot people in the head".And that's it folk in a nutshell. He stated the obvious in 3 lines. Don't waste your time on this dog of dogs.

Anthony Iessi Chuck Barris, the host of the infamous Gong Show, wrote a book long ago in which he claims that he moonlighted as a CIA assassin overseas. Yeah, I call shenanigans. Knowing who Chuck is through glimpses of Gong Show reruns, and his apparent addiction to women, he seems like a full-blown sociopath. But man, what a story he tells. Hell, I'd make a movie out of it too if given the chance. Charlie Kaufman is the scribe to this interesting film, and we see a bright portion of his mad genius in quite a few sections of the film. The final scenes of the film really highlight his fantastic surrealism. Yet, the potential of his script gets squashed by it's director, George Clooney. The Hollywood golden-boy's first foray into directing a film, and he makes sure to gussy it up with as many celebrities as he can squeeze in, and an EXTREMELY overexposed image quality. This movie is desperate to be Kaufman, but is forced through the Clooney machine. So what we get, is a great idea, watered down. But out of the many problems the film has, the brightest spot of the whole thing, other than it's great script, is Sam Rockwell as Chuck Barris. He gives a nearly flawless portrayal of him. It's scary how uncanny he is to him.

Max Rebbid A decent movie. Like a bizarre toy, shot-off in two parts - desire for sex + true love, versus life and instincts of a spy killer. Black and other kinds of humor. It reminded me of „Catch me, if you can," only with less impact on feeling and drama, yet more enhanced in „coolness" of Sam Rockwell (he's absolutely enjoying his double life and as an actor he's really starring) + focus on Clooney's love for retro (and) television. I will certainly remember Brad Pitts cameo, the girl who liked strawberry taste, and psychedelic part of the last minutes which returns us to the beginning of the story. Screen is full of beautiful and lively colors, one of the things I do not usually notice in movies. The dancing between passionate love (Barrymore - and I believed her every emotion) and another mysterious spy (Roberts, who starred in too many movies to have a fresh presence) is strongly written and greatly played. A film worth watching. And I doubt I will ever see George Clooney with that mustache again...