: Burn After Reading
Director: Coen Brothers
Hilarious Coen brothers’ romp about spies and amateurs colliding. The plot’s a bit too complicated to explain entirely, but basically we’ve got a drunken spy who retires/is fired and decides to write his memories. A CD of his book gets into the hands of two gym works who think the information is classified stuff and decide to blackmail him. In the middle of this we have married spies having affairs and other chaos, and basically the CIA can’t figure out what’s going on aren’t sure what info is where and must assume the amateurs actually know what they are doing and are real threats. The end result is a lot of nasty people fighting and dying, and it is quite hilarious. Unfortunately, the story peters out at the end and the finish is disappointing. The whole thing is a little uneven and tends to promise more than it delivers. I went away wanting more, but it’s still classic Coen brothers and is worth seeing.
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