The Descendants

Clooney, like Angelina Jolie, may be becoming a prisoner of his own Olympian looks and fame?even shambling around in shorts, flip-flops, and a goofy floral shirt, this man is self-evidently not a schlemiel. But it isn?t primarily Clooney?s fault that Matt King is such an illegible protagonist. The script (co-written by Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash) vaguely alludes to the character?s shortcomings as a father and husband without ever fleshing them out. If a woman?s going to cheat on George Clooney with the likes of Matthew Lillard, we?d better have a good idea of why. Was Matt a workaholic, as he claims in his opening voice-over? (We certainly don?t see him spend a lot of time practicing law.) Was he a sexually withholding husband, as his perpetually angry father-in-law (a terrific Robert Forster) obnoxiously insinuates? Virtually every moment of the film is spent in the company of this character, yet we come away not really knowing who Matt King is?not because, like Paul Giamatti?s romantic misanthrope in Sideways, he?s richly self-contradictory, but simply because he?s underwritten.

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