Nope, I didn’t like it. I knew it was part of the “American idiots” movies, so I was prepared for a stupid film, meant to be of course, but honestly this was very little fun, kind of boring, and with a bad, bad ending, where the only good, normal, sweet character dies in a horrible way. That was the one thing they shouldn’t have done.
Let’s try to explain this story: it all starts with two distinct events that bring chaos and trouble upon everyone. Osborne ‘Ozzie’ Cox (John Malkovich), CIA analyst, is fired, and Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) single and unhappy in her own body, wants plastic surgery at all costs. Ozzie’s wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) has a relationship with Harry (George Clooney) and is determined to get a divorce. Harry doesn’t want her to, but when she comes home to find Ozzie drunk and the car damaged, she has no more desire for delay, and soon Ozzie will come home to find his stuff outside and the lock changed. She also takes all the money from their bank accounts, leaving him nothing. Linda wants Health Insurance to pay for her surgery, but of course they refuse to, so when her friend Chad (Brad Pitt), who works with her at a gym and is a complete moron, finds a disk with what appears to be secret Cia material, and has the idea to give it back for a money reward, she jumps right in. Chad says that a friend was able to connect the disk with the pc it was written on (I think) and that it belongs to Cox. Chad calls him, but Cox had no idea the disk had been lost, or even that it existed. Apparently it contained the memoirs he was writing, and it was lost by Katie’s lawyer’s secretary. Chad simply thought he could get a reward for returning an important thing, but Linda is determined to find money for her operations, so insists in the blackmail. When Chad and Ozzie meet, they have a fight. Chad insists on his good-samaritan part, and Cox threatens him first and then punches him in the face, so Linda goes to the Russian Embassy to sell ‘her’ secrets, and gives them the disk promising a lot more. Since they don’t have more, she convinces Chad to go to Cox’s house to spy and retrieve more material. Katie has already kicked her husband out, and brought Harry home instead, so when Harry comes home Chad hides in the closet. Harry takes his gun probably to put it away (he said he had never shot anyone, ever), opens the closet and is frightened to find a man inside and shoots him in the head yelling, not even realizing he has killed him on the spot. Through a website Linda meets Harry and they start seeing each other. When Chad doesn’t come back, she asks Harry to find him, and when she tells him where exactly Chad had gone to before his disappearance, Harry realizes it’s the same man he killed, and thinks everyone is spying on him, so runs away and tries to get a plane to Venezuela (no extradition) but is caught by the Cia watching him.
The gym owner Ted (Richard Jenkins) is in love with Linda but she doesn’t even consider him, and knows nothing about it. Worried for Chad, she tells Ted everything, and tells him that they ought to get more secret material because with that they could have Chad back from whoever took him, and when Ted refuses she runs away yelling ‘I hate you’. This hurts Ted so much he changes his mind and does the stupidest thing in the world: goes to Cox’s house. It just so happen that Ozzie had broken into the house to get alcohol and jewels and who knows what else, when he hears noises, and busts Ted looking around. Osborne shoots him, Ted runs away but Cox follows him and repeatedly hits him with an hatchet. I hated this: not Ted!!
It ends with a report done to Cia boss (J.K. Simmons): an agent witnessed the assault, did not save Ted but shooted Osborne Cox, now in a coma. The boss is glad about it, problem solved. He says to put Harry on a plane to Venezuela: another problem solved. About Linda, she’s in the building an willing to ‘play ball’ if they pay for her operations. They agree. End of movie.
She got Chad and Ted killed, and came out a winner. This is definitely not my kind of fun.
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