2010 Movie Review: Up in the Air Starring George Clooney and Vera Farmiga

If you're trying too figure out the best way too "terminate" some of your workplace employees? This film will make an excellent reference guide of how-to? Although, this often-times sad and dramatic black-comedy movie was 2010 Academy Award nominated for Best Picture and super-star George Clooney whom was also nominated for Best actor. Unfortunately, neither category nominee won.

Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a corporate downsizer that airline travels all over the USA and "literally fires" employees that have worked as long as (22) twenty-two years or less for the same company, because of corporate cut-backs related to the 2008-2009 declining United States economy. (Most viewers like me will wonder? "How does this guy keep from getting shot and killed after terminating so many employees year after year, day after day?").

His highly paid main objective job is to travel to different corporations that have 50 or more employees here in the USA, and just simply give these dedicated year after year hard-working people "the AX regarding their lifetime company employment!" Bingham lives his isolated daily boring life in the airplane jet skies, mostly with a cheap one-bedroom apartment, very little clothes and furniture, and with the only friend he still has in life is his younger sister that is getting ready to get married Julie (Melanie Lynskey).

Expert lay-off corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham seems to have NO heart in regards to human life? This film character portrayal role seems to "mysteriously" fit George Clooney perfect in every way for some strange reason? His deep male, but charming well spoken voice speech, high-priced business suits and ties, and the fact that he always has this horrible serious "Killer" look in his eyes. While "Firing" corporate employees, as closely portrayed in the film, which is directed by co-writer Jason Reitman, based on the same name novel called "Up in the Air", originally written by Walter Kirn.

Non-Caring human robot Bingham seems to have only (1) one goal in life? To achieve the ten million frequent flyer miles, a feat managed only six times previously from other corporate workers in their travel lifetimes. Bingham often-times stated that he travels as much as 350,000 sky miles per year during his highly paid presentable business and crucial final employee "lay-off" hotel conferences speech. (Does this make him a hero or a villain of unemployment bad news?).

After "ironically" traveling the skies for so many years? Handsome and gorgeous Ryan Bingham (Clooney) meets female frequent flyer named Alex (Vera Farmiga showing her beautiful naked body during one scene in the hotel bedroom with Clooney) and they begin a casual so-called "FUN" relationship. "Which she and he both thought at the time?" Her weird/loving relationship and or sexual escape from her daily life-style seems to get caught-up between the two somewhere during this dramatic "close facial film".

These particular fascinating Hollywood parts during the movie is mostly the reason why film critics gave it a high rating of A- and Yahoo.com users also gave this highly "easy to watch" and understand highly acclaimed movie an also high rating of B+. I personally give it a high rating of B+. Simply because the plot and or story has a deep substance meaning in today's USA society for any male or female mature viewer that has ever worked any corporation job here in the USA in the past two years.

If you have recently been laid-off from your corporate job? This sometimes one-liner black comedy depressing film simply called "Up in the Air", is not recommended for viewing. However? If you are gigantic George Clooney fan? George seems to show one of his best close-face performances depicting a hard-nosed money making corporation "Hatchet Man" because these corporate executives are too cowardly to fire their lifetime employees which they have worked with, side by side, for so many years together.

"Most likely because of being shot and killed on site for declining employers!" in my personal opinion? Co-star actress Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) an ambitious young and beautiful 23 year old co-worker "fires" a corporate employee which tragically decides to later on jump off of a bridge committing suicide in the film. Knowing in the beginning that her job is based on a life and or death situation? Even though? The yearly pay for her was in the (6) six figure range?

The irony of this entire film and story as a male heterosexual business-man viewer? "How can a handsome and gorgeous SINGLE rich business man travel all over the nationwide USA and NOT have a female sexual/companion in every city?"

Especially after filmmakers showed his presence in the downstairs hotel bar drinking alcohol? "Which can often-times provoke sexual pleasure for any human-being, especially men?"

Another "weird thing" about this film, is the fact that George Clooney and Jeff Bridges both made this completely awful 2009 film called "The men who stare at goats!". Clooney starred/directed/produced this most FORGETTABLE film that most historic fans will try too over-look and forget during his entire career, although film critics liked it for some strange reason? Average theater viewers hated it and even asked for their money-back, because the movie was so bad?

Luckily? Jeff Bridges won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Actor regarding the 2009 seemingly unknown film called "Crazy Horse" during the summer months. Apparently? The historic Academy Award members knew that that this lifetime Hollywood actor should win some kind of award for playing so many "weird and unusual alcohol drinking" film parts in the past (20) twenty years of his career possibly dating back to his early days of "The Last Picture Show" in 1971.

This 2009 film simply called "Up in the Air" has a really deep and lasting meaning/story/plot for movie viewers. It has very little profanity, NO violence, and any kind of continuous sexual content, except for the one scene of Vera Farmiga showing her big buttocks and beautiful "side-view" breast in the hotel room for only a few seconds of filming. "It's ironically?" One of those films that will stick in your mind forever, if you work in a daily large corporate office.