It takes the charm of a Cary Grant or a George Clooney to pull off the role of a corporate downsizer who travels the country to fire people and is perfectly adapted to his ecological niche. Like a shark, he has to keep moving to stay alive. Also, there are very fine women’s turns by Vera Formiga as Clooney’s female equivalent and girlfriend (when their travel schedules match up) and Anna Kendrick as the fresh-out-of-Cornell kid who tries to learn the firing game from old master Clooney. The script provides much smart, ironic humor here threaded with big serious themes. We get to see a lot of firings up close, and the array of responses from actors who look like real people is a fine index of how much we invest in our jobs.
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