It looks funny but I am not going to have a geekasm over Matt Damon ever by any means.

Eh, never did like the George Costanza awkward lets watch someone embarrass themselves for 2 hours kind of humor. Maybe I'm not emotionally sadistic enough. I've always been a cooperation rather than a competition type guy.

It makes me think of the Idiocracy "Ow My Balls" show.

I mean seriously look how much you have to exaggerate stupidity to shoot below the lowest common denominator.

It's not funny, it's sad.

That's pretty much why I hate comedies. Film makers are so scared to death of the audience not "getting it" that they create this sort of mental defective as a character, place him in a position where he could not possibly be, and then surround him with "normal" people to provide contrast and voice the audiences' mental "WTF"s.

But I do agree, Matt is an extremely diverse actor and I'll probably watch it despite all this.

Indeed, it seems to be what Burn Before Reading wasn't: funny.

But then again, the trailer to BBR was also funnier than the movie, in fact very funny.

As to Matt Damon, I am not sure. He has two modes, the geeky mode as we see here and the serious mode that we saw in Bourne or The Departed.

Not much variation, to be honest.

Funny, I don't recall hearing about Damon in Chicago last summer. That last scene was especially familiar since I've been in that building a few times this past month.

I gotta agree with Lengthy here. I was a tad disappointed in Burn After Reading. It had a few moments...but overall....meh.

Hopefully this will get it right. Trailer looks good.