For those who aren't yet familiar with this movie, George Clooney stars as a man who's job is to fire people. The offshoot of this is that he spends most of his time flying around the country, and he likes it. He has gotten extremely good at knowing how to get through security the fastest, what perks he has available with the airlines and the rental car companies and he's working toward a "secret" goal of airline miles so he can be one of the seven people to ever achieve that number. In other words, he has no personal connections at all and this is how he wants it.Over the course of the movie we see this character grow to see the value in more personal connections with other people. He starts to fall for someone and maybe wants more with her, but that would get in the way of the existence he's built up all these years. And then there's his sister's wedding that he can't quite figure out if he should even bother attending. Those are the basics, anyway, but the real issue here is whether I liked it. That would be a YES. It wasn't a comedy, but it has some very funny lines that produce more satisfying laughs than most true comedies can ever hope to manage. It's subtly emotional and really gets the viewer thinking about why it's important to have connections with others. The only part that really has me stammering is the ending. I'm not entirely sure why, after this satisfying journey, we ended up where we did. I don't know if it's good or bad, it's just not where I wanted to be, if that makes any sense. Regardless of that, it was still an exceptional movie.
