Who is Michael Clayton?
After reviewing this trailer, the answer is conclusive. Michael Clayton is George Clooney, masquerading as Michael Clayton, nancing about in a prehensile parody of a melodramatic widescreen presentation designed to save the thespian vocation of George Clooney.
Once you get past that, there’s the genuinely intriguing character of Arthur Edens (played by Tom Wilkinson), unceremoniously splooged into the sparsely stitched tale of his sudden attack of conscience over a moral issue in the legal world. If suspension of disbelief may be maintained for the duration necessary to dispel the preposterous intimation that an attorney may be in possession of a conscience, the fact that a brilliant legal mind would take ethical objection to the plight of those less epicurean than himself in the course of a lawsuit propagated by the attorney in question may actually prove an interesting story.
That is, of course, if that pesky George Michael Clay-Tooney isn’t too much of a distraction.
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