Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) fires people for a living, flying across the continent doing other people's nasty work. The work has left him deeply shallow, oblivious to relationships and consumed with landing American Airlines' most elite flier status. When his company decides to pilot a new method to fire people online, Ryan is saddled with an up-and-coming brainiac, Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick), to show her the ropes of firing people live and in person. Along the way, Ryan falls for another corporate monster like himself, Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga). Directed by Jason Reitman, Up in the Air is easily one of the best movies this year. The writing is outstanding and there are more perfect lines, perfectly delivered here than in any movie in some time. More deeply, the movie shows us three people caught in their respective corporate tracks and, for Ryan - so brilliantly realized by Clooney - how sometimes you have to be hurt to fully understand the richness that is life, and that none of us can exist solely up in the air.
My rating 9 out of 10.
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