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Up in the Air has great performances from George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick with a great supporting cast. It also has a good combination of emotion, comedy and drama which helps overcome the predictable elements in the third act.

This film is about a man who fires people for a living. His world becomes upside down when his job is radically changed by a newly recruited young fresh graduate."Up in the Air" is a well made film. The plot focuses on character development and emotional changes of the characters. It is not easy to make characters interesting and memorable, but "Up in the Air" does just that. Both the characters of George Clooney and Anna Kendrick have strongly divergent attitudes and personalities, but they have great chemistry and change each other slowly but surely. How they radically shake each others core belief is engagingly told. I enjoyed watching "Up in the Air" a lot, as it tells an engaging story of self discovery.

This movie is really disappointing. The story is weak. It's about very little - a corporate downsizer and a boring little affair.The praise and nominations are really undeserved. Everyone hardly has much acting to do. George Clooney is his usual self with that little half smile. Vera Farmiga is attractive but she really doesn't have much to do. Anna Kendrick's much lauded performance as Clooney's young colleague is adequate but again there isn't a lot required of her. The story is not moving or interesting. The ending is predictable and you feel that nothing happened at all.If it wasn't a Clooney movie and heavily marketed I don't think it would have even got any nominations at all. It isn't even interesting enough to be a made for TV movie of the week maybe less.