Commentary Magazine   The Five Most Overrated Films of 2007  1.
Michael Clayton. (90 percent favorable rating on the movie
review website Rotten Tomatoes). Billed as a realistic walk
through the corridors of power, Michael Clayton winds up being a
tepid, lugubrious, and preposterous thriller—art-house Grisham.
George Clooney plays a kind of lawyer who doesn’t even
exist—though he works for a huge law firm, he runs around the
greater New York area doling out expertise on criminal cases,
immigration issues, family law, and a dozen other specialized
areas. Can you picture big law firms sending out sneaky hit
teams to take down anyone who might testify against them, even
though that person might have told any number of others what he
knows? Can you picture firms hiring mugs to blow up cars? Would
a hit squad be so dumb that the car is primed to blow up at a
seemingly random moment rather than when the ignition is turned
on? And finally: if a car exploded and there was no body in or
around the car, would a lawyer