This movies has me thinking; I have the suspicion that I’m being tricked into thinking that it’s a good movie, but that it’s actually so-so. It’s said that Michael Clayton is contrived as George Clooneys Oscar ticket and somehow you feel that throughout the movie. If Clooney deserved an Oscar, it was for Syriana, but that had the wrong subject. This is corrected here; now it’s the environment, something we all can safely agree about. So the movie goes the Erin Brockovich-route and Clooney does his troubled-guy-with-faults-does-good-in-the-end-bit. This sounds harsh and it probably is. In the end Michael Clayton is a good legal thriller desperately trying to be more than that.
