Moony Clooney

Unfortunately this download got stuck for a month or so in the back office, where the sub-editors slacked off. They’re a rough crew, who prefer fishing, so performance reviews are overdue. Anyway, sorry if it’s too late to save your brain.  

Not all moving pictures are worthy of your viewing attention, so I’m warning you off the latest, ridiculous George Clooney offering where he plays the title, Jay Kelly. About a Hollywood movie star annoying us in implausible and superficial ways, it’s apparently a ‘getting of wisdom’ story about a self-centred egotist (intentionally redundant) gradually realising he’s mainly been a dickhead.

Generally I dislike movies about the movie business because it breaks the magic pact we agree to as viewers, of suspending disbelief and entering the world of the filmmaker. Looking at the entrails of movie-making and its highly structured production process is somehow disquieting.

With Jay and George it’s hard to tell if the latter is acting or just goofing off with his mate Adam Sandler, and exercising his usual repertoire of smarms, flashing teeth, doleful look or possible rictus of introspection.

The motley Kelly entourage of fixers and lackeys is dragged across Europe in a series of unlikely situations, maybe to make it more visually interesting than the back-lot of a Hollywood movie studio. And all mixed up with gross scenes of conspicuous consumption with private jets et al.

Unclever and unfunny nonsense, which I couldn’t watch to the end, so enough said – don’t waste your time, if it’s not too late already!

Maybe George could concentrate on his worthy humanitarian causes and political activism, and wait for a real script to turn up. Or just enjoy family life in the south of France, where he has taken up residence and French citizenship, and managed to annoy His Trumpness.