I had high expectations of Coen brothers' 'Burn after reading'(imdb). It's a good movie but the creative attempts could use more strength. The plot revolves around typical 'losers' driven to desperate situations. Circle 1: A former CIA agent Osborne is fired for no reason. He has a Stanlist wife played by Tilda Swinton who's having an affair with a treasury guy named Harry (George Clooney). Then you have the equally troubled Circle 2: Two gym staff, Linda and Chad, get hold of Osborne's secret CIA profile and try to blackmail for money.
If you put these two circles together, the names that appear in the overlapping area would be Osborne and surprisingly, Harry, who send the complication to a climax. Problem is, the blackmail part enters the stage a tadbit late and offsets the overall pacing. The dialogues are not commendably witty but the audience still had a good laugh out of it. Blackmail, infidelity,divorce, illiteracy, unemployment, plastic surgery, you have about all the devils partying in the backyard and in the end leaving a huge tangle of mess that's best burnt and forgotten.
Brad Pitt as Chad, the happy-go-'lucky' gym guy
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