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May 27, 2016 · Burn After Reading. After years wasted on painfully average comedic fare, the Coen brothers wowed everyone last year with their gritty Texas thriller No Country For Old Men, and the world stood up ...
Summary. Burn After Reading, a comedy thriller from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski), is world-premiering as the opening-night film of the 2008 Venice ...
The reviews have been mixed, and I'm not at all surprised. BURN AFTER READING won't be everybody's cup of Gatorade, but if you're one of the many naysayers who claim to find the film a major letdown after last year's officially designated Best Pic NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, well, let me just say, I do understand your point.
Synopsis. Intelligence is relative. When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.
Burn After Reading. When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop ...
"Burn After Reading" isn't the sharpest or funniest comedy the Coens have ever produced, but it is cleverly concocted and features a hilarious turn from the great character actor J.K. Simmons ("Spider-Man 3," "Juno") as a C.I.A. chief. This is the type of film that effects more chuckles upon reflection than while it's running.
Aug 26, 2008 · "Burn After Reading," the Coen brothers have taken some of cinema's top and most expensive actors and chucked them into looney-tunes roles in a thriller set in and about Washington.
