Michael Clayton is the story of hot shot lawyer Michael Clayton (George Clooney, in his best work since Batman & Robin) who goes about uncovering a stinking $3billion lawsuit that his firm is trying to defend. When his friend Arthur (played by Tom Wilkinson in brilliant performance), who is heading the case gets bumped off, Michael decides to go from being a passive observer to searching for what Arthur had found out. At first he thought Arthur was just suffering from delusions and paranoia due to a lack of required medication but soon he discovers something is really stinky. Michael must eventually decide whether what he is uncovering is worth giving up everything for. Will he do it? See it to find out.
A solid movie and I really liked the fact very little of the actual case was mentioned and there were no courtroom scenes, rare for a movie essentially based around a legal battle. Instead we look more at issues of morality and integrity. Great cast, good script- well worth watching.
PS. This now takes my IMDB reviews count to 200. Thankyou, thankyou very much.
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