Review: Up In The Air

With echoes of Thank You For Smoking thanks to the story centring around having a Charming/Bastard protagonist in the lead role, Up In The Air also takes its cue from Reitman's other film Juno in not being afraid to be equally sad/moving in places.

This will no doubt be the first of many films dealing with the economic downturn, like the slew of war films from Hollywood hitting the screen now - Up In The Air deserves a lot of credit for its fine performances across the cast (Even Danny McBride dails it down a touch) but the film focused on Clooney being Clooney for too long to deserve all the praise it has gained so far.