Clooney dazzles in ‘Michael Clayton'

A lawyer who's ostensibly in good shape, Michael Clayton still has plenty of flab sagging and dangling from his body - from years of weighty mistakes and fatigue at "fixing" client concerns.

Clayton's a legal sin eater, taking into his soul the culpability of those whose transgressions he cleans. What does he have to show for it? In a world of trophy wives and glamour homes, Clayton's assets are gaseous, a marriage, equity and family pride all vaporized. Even his Mercedes is a loaner car from a firm that enables his self-destructive vices more than it employs his considerable talents.