After reading some of the reviews I looked forward to seeing this film described as "a screwball comedy" in the tradition of Gable, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and others. After seeing the film the new definition of screwball comedy means a film lacking in laughs. What fails here is the script; no wit, no verbal forays. What I do not understand is what happened. The basic idea is great and must have wowed in the story conference. The talent is there: Clooney, Zeta-Jones, Rush and directed by Joel Coen. But whoever did the script and whoever approved the script let the side down. Clooney was cast for this role but his talent cannot save it. No edge to the character of Miles Massey (great name)in the style of "Out of Sight". Too bad.
Review of Intolerable Cruelty
