Driving by his deep will of saving his career and reputation, Chuck Barris, a young smart and successful television producer, who struggles against hiding his true identity of being a former assassin for a corrupted police officer.
It's a smart, stylish, eminently watchable movie that nonetheless feels a little empty at the end.
TheMovieReport.com
February 08, 2005
A terrific actor, a handsome movie star and now an accomplished director--damn you, Mr. Clooney, for making it that much more unfair for the average joe likes of myself.
Brimming with slightly self-conscious directorial panache, the movie zips between nearly three decades, fantasy and reality without ever really deciding how seriously it wants to take itself.
