Tony Gilroy, the guy who has the screenplays of The Devil's Advocate and the Bourne series to his credit, takes the directors seat for the first time with Michael Clayton. The subject he has chosen for his directorial debut is a legal drama. Legal dramas are difficult to make, because the pace has to be slow, the dialogs have to be carefully written so that the audience can understand what exactly is going on and trust me people don't like to watch slow paced movies unless the movie is really good and has some substance to keep the audience glued to the screen. Well, Tony has chosen a difficult subject for his first film as a director and see how successfully he has done so. I mean, how many movie have managed to get seven Oscar nominations and how many of them were made by first time directors.
Michael Clayton is a fixer in one of the biggest law firms in United States and he is really good at his job. He is one person who can make his clients problems disappear except his own. His business has gone bad, he has debts to pay and he is addicted to gambling. His company is handling a high stake case for U/north, but a sudden change of heart of his friend and colleague Arthur Edens changes everything and Michael is given the job to clean everything up. Micheal is trying to pull everything back together, but when Arthur is killed, he decides to dig deeper.
The movie has enough stuff to keep you interested. Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton have done great job as Arthur Edens and Karen Crowder respectively. George Clooney is brilliant in the title role. The movie starts with a scene from the climax and the most of the story is a flashback, may be it's inspired by Martin Scorsese but it certainly made the screenplay much more interesting. I would give Michael Clayton 7 out of 10 and am certainly waiting for more movies from Tony.
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