Michael Clayton

So far so good on all of our TIFF '07 picks. Started out the festival with Michael Clayton starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack. First time director Tony Gilroy, (screenwriter who gave birth to the Bourne Identity, Supremacy, and Ultimatum franchise) packs a wallop with his saga of a corporate corruption. Wilkinson is exhausting as the bi-polar legal genius who threatens to tank his high powered New York law firm and the unconscionable biochemical multinational (headed by Tilda Swinton) that they represent. Clooney's Michael Clayton is the firm's 'janitor', called into the contain and mop up the mess it makes apart from his own hacked up life plagued by addiction, divorce, debt.

Clooney takes on corporate greed even in this fast paced Hollywood blockbuster sure to sweep the box office off its feet! *****