the american opens

Get ready everybody!  Lady Gaga may have left town, but George Clooney's coming to screens all across the city.  The American is opening at, well, a handful of theaters today, and we've already got a few reviews trickling in.  Say, let's see what Colin Covert thinks of this film:

Cast and crew toil valiantly on the film's behalf, but can't make a drama out of an undernourished screenplay and a bloodless central character... it winds up feeling Canadian: more bloodless and chilly than thrilling.

Huh.  Seems like an unnecessary potshot at our neighbors to the north (if anything, you'd need blood to survive their winters).  He seems to appreciate Corbijn's (Control) direction while disapproving of how Clooney was used in the film:

The role casts Clooney, the most convivial of actors, utterly against type... Clooney's performance as this colorless killer manages to grab your curiosity without holding your involvement.

I guess after that review I'd say that this movie is the antithesis of the summer's other big-star action vehicle, Salt.  Haven't seen either of those, but, like I said, that comparison is based solely on reviews.  I don't watch movies anymore, I just report on them.