After From Dusk Till Dawn, Clooney plays again a part in a movie that blends hard-boiled action, romance and comedy. The mix does not work. (1) Are we really supposed to take the love interest between Lopez and not-so-bad guy Clooney seriously? (2) Clooney is too charming a person to be a credible anti-hero in the série-noire tradition? (3) The série-noire pretence is undermined by a number of comic scenes.
Review of Out of Sight
