...and then so very, very much failure to deliver.
Matt Damon stars as the InfidelityBot 9000, whose purpose in the film is to walk around like a robot in a haze from youth to adulthood, expressing a dearth of emotional response to everything he encounters. His most noteworthy charcteristic is his interest in sleeping with hearing-impaired women, even as he is married to one who is not.
As a coming-of-age tale about the CIA, the film has its merits--but all the interesting detials about the Agency are drowned in a vat of tangents about the protagonist's fantastically insipid life outside his work.
Watching how the Agency changed him and warped his development as a person might have made for a fine film, but this was not that film. He looks and acts the same from beginning to end, his life and personality are shaped far more by...
...out of characters. Bleh. Finish reading it here: http://www.itog.com/topic_show.pl?tid=877
