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...directed by Grant Heslov (co-screenwriter on the Clooney-directed Good Night, and Good Luck), it's hard to believe. The movie strains to find a coherent comic tone; it smashes into the wall of plausibility it's trying to run through. (See pictures of George Clooney at play...
...only pleasure comes in watching Clooney do one of his favorite things: play himself as an idiot. The oafs in O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Burn After Reading were mere warm-ups for this über-doofus. Striding through Iraq as if he has even a remote view of where he's going, Cassady has a confidence that almost masks his lunacy. Thus, he's the exemplar of a war rationale built on the belief in weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist...
...furious fourth-quarter comeback—sealed by a last-minute interception by senior Jon Takamura—was a marked difference from the first three quarters of play, when underdog Yale dominated the game...
Later in the second, Harvard pulled out a trick play of its own on what looked to be a 30-yard field goal attempt by senior Patrick Long. Junior Matt Simpson, the holder and backup quarterback, picked up the ball himself and looked for a target but found none—turning the ball over on downs once again...
...Crimson opened the second half with a strong drive, with a series of runs from Gordon and freshman Treavor Scales bringing up first-and-goal from the five-yard line. But though the first play moved Harvard up to the one, Winters and Gordon couldn’t move the ball over the goal line on three subsequent tries...