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Watch: Michael Clayton 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm’s fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he’s taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother’s debts (Michael’s own gambling habits have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm’s six year defense of a conglomerate’s pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm’s top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel..
Plot: A law firm brings in its “fixer” to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 167,004
	91% | RottenTomatoes
	82/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1403 Popularity: 14.029 | TMDB

Reviews:

Michael Clayton a different kind of thriller
Michael Clayton is not your typical legal thriller. Oh, it has most of the standard trappings of one: double-crossing, shady back room deals, and a guilty client. But in the case of Michael Clayton, the film focuses most of its attention on the questionable moral quagmire of working for guilty clients, living your life protecting those who you can’t help but find reprehensible, wanting to get out, but finding you are good at it and that is where your superiors want you. Michael Clayton isn’t a revelatory film, but it is a smart one that deals in the grey world that we all live in, not the black and white one legal films are usually about.

The central character is Michael Clayton (George Clooney), a “fixer” at a major Manhattan law firm. His job entails him cleaning up other’s messes, not litigating in a court room. He hates the work, but the senior partner at the firm, Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack), wants him to stay in the job because he has a talent for it. Things are not rosy for Michael right now: his addict brother has run a business venture that Michael was a partner in into the ground, leaving Michael with thousands of dollars in debt; his relationship with his ex-wife is on the rocks, and into this environment comes a whole new caliber of problem: Michael’s friend, and fellow attorney, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), who is a lead attorney for a major case for the firm involving U/North, a huge, multifaceted corporation, has discovered evidence damning to U/North, and has also, seemingly, lost his senses.

Arthur begins plotting to publicly expose U/North with this evidence, thereby destroying them, something that U/North’s lead corporate attorney, Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton), cannot allow. Michael is called in to help calm Arthur and bring the situation under control, but it becomes quickly obvious that Arthur cannot be reigned in, and Karen begins looking at far more dire methods of containment.

When you walk into Michael Clayton, you need to be prepared for a limited amount of action, and a fair amount of talk. It is a film about words and far less exciting events than found in many movies. Michael Clayton is also not the most straightforwardly plotted film. A great deal of information is suggested through inference and requires the full attention of the audience. But Michael Clayton is hardly boring. It delves into the decisions that individuals make when their livelihood depends on living in a moral quagmire. Michael is a man who is concerned about making sure that he can make the payments on a huge debt and dealing with the sometimes annoying and reprehensible people that the law firm provides its services to. Arthur is in a similar situation, but he can no longer live with himself and the protection of clients who are obviously guilty. It is debatable whether Arthur is mentally unhinged, or simply woken up to the reality of his actions and what they mean in the grander scheme of things.

Michael Clayton is the directorial debut of Tony Gilroy, a longtime Hollywood screenwriter, who crafts a film that manages to keep you involved like a good thriller without providing many of the requisite elements: chases, shootouts and fisticuffs. Michael Clayton is a thriller that works at a slower pace, but still manages to enthrall with its developments. Critical to the film’s success is its performances. George Clooney gives us a Michael who feels many aspects of his world closing around him and tries to keep all the balls in the air. Tom Wilkinson’s turn as Arthur is that of a man who has experienced an epiphany, seeing the world like a newborn baby. Finally, Tilda Swinton’s Karen Crowder is a woman who is all about appearance (one of her first scenes reveals her practicing a speech so that it will appear perfect) and ensuring that no one rocks the boat of U/North. She has sold her soul to the devil and will do anything to keep the company intact.

Michael Clayton is certainly not everyone’s cup of tea. It requires a strong attention span and a willingness to not have everything spelled out for you. If you can provide that, then it is a film experience that will provide some rewards.

Big Disappointment
31 October 2007. The rather two-dimensional script and dialogue for Michael Clayton’s character didn’t offer George Clooney a lot to work with. The beginning was a hodgepodge of unnecessary confusion only to allow the “surprise” explosion in the beginning. The plot was loaded down with a lot of side baggage regarding Clayton’s life that detracted from the main storyline. Clayton’s backstory and his performance on screen didn’t portray anybody that one would suspect a multi-billion dollar corporation would actual retain to do speciality jobs, in fact, it seemed that he was almost out-specialized in the movie most of the time. This movie was no ERIN BROCKOVICH (2000) which was based on a true story and was even more compelling, no PELICAN BRIEF (1993). The cloak and dagger stuff was tame and uninspired compared to ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998) or one of the best THE THREE DAYS OF CONDOR (1975). It is a stretch to tie one’s survival to a book. The one irony that may have been deliberate which had some sense of justice was how the former addict relative and Clayton’s own compulsive behavior balanced out. Even the movie itself sunk under its own manipulative attempt to be something crime drama, thriller, espionage (black opts), political drama, family drama…something, an award nomination wouldn’t be out of the question for the one performance that stood out for Tilda Swinton in one of the best supporting acting jobs of the year.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 59 min (119 min)
Budget 25000000
Revenue 92991835
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director Tony Gilroy
Writer Tony Gilroy
Actors George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 28 wins & 114 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Lightweight, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor Digital Intermediates, Los Angeles (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 3,275 m (Sweden), 3,303 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Panavision (anamorphic) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Fuji), D-Cinema