Up In The Air

Up In The Air is a 2009 film starring George Clooney, Anne Kendrick, and Vera Farmiga. The movie (which I got at the redbox) was probably the best film I've ever seen at the redbox to date (besides 'Moon')! The film was very different from anything I've seen and really opened my eyes to the job of people who help companies lay-off employees they unfortunately need to get rid of due to budget cuts. It was very humorous and even though the film wasn't trying to, it attracted me to the career for which has been mentioned. The movie itself had an excellent screenplay with incredible acting and direction! The screenplay really got you emotionally attached to the characters within the story within the first second of the movie even when they haven't introduced all of them yet! While the film brought sadness throughout the firing scenes, it also brought humor to some of them and throughout the movie tiself while the movie also just made you think of having the career of the main character and spending your whole life flying on an airplane and firing people on a day to day basis. However the screenplay wouldn't have been notably good unless their was outstanding acting to deliver it for which this film has. George Clooney and Vera Farmiga did great jobs at making the viewer become emotionally attached to their characters and the other characters around them by both character's cleverness. However I was really impressed by the director, Jason Reitman who also did films for whom I personally love, Thank You For Smoking and Juno. I personally like this director and hope to see more white collar films like this from him in the future. Overall I give this film a 5 out of 5, it's just that cleverly good and I personally believe that it along with Avatar and Moon are probably the best films of 2009, all three are must-sees so go see them!