Review: Up In The Air

Affair: Clooney and Farmiga

Director/co-writer Jason Reitman’s acidly funny follow-up to his marvellous Juno showcases George Clooney’s award-worthy performance as a corporate “downsizer”. He is the hired gun whose job is to constantly travel around the US firing luckless employees of the companies who hire him.

Clooney, smooth as a perfectly mixed cocktail, is perfectly cast as a narcissist who uses fellow-travellers for sex without commitment. Until, that is, his peripatetic affair with fellow executive Vera Farmiga takes an unexpected turn.