It’s flawed, for sure, but when it’s good it’s really good. It also wins for best movie moment of the year.
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This movie sort of works despite itself. It’s obviously about the “evils of modern society” but the best parts for me were the awesomeness and majesty of the city imagery. The high speed footage exposed the patterns of city life, but that was more fascinating to me than a problem. Ultimately a movie without text or dialog (aside from the very end) is more easily open to interpretation. I loved what Ebert said “If the people in all those cars on all those expressways are indeed living crazy lives, their problem is not the expressway … but perhaps social facts such as unemployment, crime, racism, drug abuse and illiteracy—issues so complicated that a return to nature seems like an elitist joke at their expense.”
Not an emotionally involving movie, but with a ton of great visual moments and and some strong acting by my new fav Sam Rockwell as well as Clooney and Barrymore, there was a lot to enjoy. It’s clear Clooney has learned everything he knows from Soderburgh, but that’s a good thing in this case.