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Up In the Air

George Clooney is as always a slick businessman who can handle any situation with an air of grace, hence his roll in this movie as Ryan Bingham, a travelling ax man who conducts employee layoffs for bosses who are too cowardly to do it themselves. Throughout the movie Bingham (Clooney) has a lone wolf persona who cares only about reaching the ten million frequent flyer miles reward. When a young up in coming tech nerd Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) joins the company and threatens to put an end to Binghams' dream by grounding all employees, he takes a stand and has Keener accompany him to learn how to really fire people. Mostly the movie has a feeling of detachment, while Bimgham and Keeney have the same argument over and over again. The only actual entertaining aspect of this movie is the spitfire character Keeney. If the movie revolved more around her rather than the classic (and slightly outplayed Clooney) it would have been more interesting. So despite the film festival awards this movie was a series of sad events followed up by a too quick ending that seems rushed in it's wrap up.