**HERE BE SPOILERS**
Chuck Barris (Rockwell) is a man struggling to get in the TV show-business. His idea for a show doesn't get aired and he is short of money. He is approached by Jim Byrd (Clooney) and offered the job as an agent. Needing money he accepts. But then his life get complicated. He has an peculiar relationship with the love of his life, Penny (Barrymore), his shows get aired, he becomes very successful and he travels around the world murdering people.
Obviously, this man is living two separate lives. One as a TV-producer and one as a hit-man. It is funny to see that the movie actually keeps these story lines separate, until he personally get difficulties to separate them. Barris is no ordinary man, and the situations he gets into and actions he makes is odd resulting in a peculiar story. It might be hard for a movie to show an coherent understandable story when it is peculiar as this, but CoDM actually succeed fairly well. I must say, the suspense is low, and to me is put into a secondary role. The main part is just to see the world from the viewpoint of this very strange man.
So, the movie is peculiar and different. Entertaining but not the greatest I ever seen.
6/10
Chuck Barris (Rockwell) is a man struggling to get in the TV show-business. His idea for a show doesn't get aired and he is short of money. He is approached by Jim Byrd (Clooney) and offered the job as an agent. Needing money he accepts. But then his life get complicated. He has an peculiar relationship with the love of his life, Penny (Barrymore), his shows get aired, he becomes very successful and he travels around the world murdering people.
Obviously, this man is living two separate lives. One as a TV-producer and one as a hit-man. It is funny to see that the movie actually keeps these story lines separate, until he personally get difficulties to separate them. Barris is no ordinary man, and the situations he gets into and actions he makes is odd resulting in a peculiar story. It might be hard for a movie to show an coherent understandable story when it is peculiar as this, but CoDM actually succeed fairly well. I must say, the suspense is low, and to me is put into a secondary role. The main part is just to see the world from the viewpoint of this very strange man.
So, the movie is peculiar and different. Entertaining but not the greatest I ever seen.
6/10