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I agree; neither my wife nor I were impressed by this Coen Brother's film.

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In Reply to: RE: Burn After Reading posted by PhilJ on September 12, 2008 at 13:56:04

In fact, we were more than a little disappointed given the expectations.

Oddly, the character which worked best for us was the Brad Pitt character, because he played a clueless surfer-dude type of guy in an amusing "Darwin Award" way. Unfortunately, seeing Pitt's character as the central interest in this film was it's fatal flaw. His death took away the only really likable character in the movie for us.

In spite of the obvious ironies and 'comedy of errors' there were very few laughs in Burn After Reading. Most of the actors didn't 'sell' their characters very well, which I've concluded wasn't so much the fault of the actors (in this instance) as the casting (some of the actors were just unbelievable in the roles as cast).

AuPh

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