A very good movie

I had already seen this movie, in fact, I even saw it in the movie theater when it was released, but since it was almost 10 years ago, I was really eager to check it out again. First of all, I have noticed that the last 3 movies directed by Jason Reitman (‘Men, Women & Children’, ‘Labor Day’ and ‘Young Adult’) were rather poorly received and this flick was the last one he made which was actually really successful. Well, to be honest, I thought it was not as good as 'Thank you for smoking' which should get much more credit but, in my opinion, it was still much better than 'Juno'. Indeed, even though 'Juno' was a huge critical success, as far as I was concerned, it was actually rather overrated. Anyway, at the time, Jason Reitman was definitely continuing his winning streak, that's for sure. Indeed, I thought it was just a great and compelling story and George Clooney was at the top of his game back in those days. What more do you need ? The greatest thing about this flick is that even though they showed a guy with one of the most worthless jobs ever, I couldn’t help feeling sorry for this man anyway. Contrary to ‘Juno’ which felt rather artificial and even slightly pretentious, this tale was much more convincing and really timely, especially in this time of economic crisis. To be honest, I have to admit that it was not so impressed the 2nd time around but, even so, I still think it is easily one of the best movies delivered by Jason Reitman so far. Anyway, to conclude, I enjoyed this movie a lot, it was one of the best movies released in 2009 and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

8/10