This 2008 black spy comedy film was a hit back then because of the storyline and plot, the story features a jobless CIA analyst whose memoirs are found by some gym employees. They mistake the memoirs for government documents and then the trail of adventurous events follows in their attempt to gain profit from their find. Burn After Reading starts with the main character Osbourne Cox quitting his job as a CIA analyst and then deciding to write a memoir. His wife Katie finds this whole situation an opportunity to divorce him so she can continue her affair with Harry Pfarrer, who is a U.S. Marshal with paranoid intentions.
After that, a series of events about mysterious information gets out into the hands of the gym employees, who keep it thinking it has a piece of sensitive government information and can make them rich. Burn After Reading keeps the audience engaged and is a major source of entertainment.
Burn After Reading Review
Burn After Reading is a true mix of hilarious comedy and twisted plot with a dizzy zeal of perfectly fits the roles of actors. The plot revolves around and around and goes in every possible direction. The storyline of the movie is definitely unique and has the potential to keep the viewers at the bay of anticipation and intrigued about what would happen next, the characters and dialogues fit very well with the actors that making the movie even more enjoyable. While some find the plot weird, as it takes good flicks from being a spy movie turning into a completely heads while the comedic timing is introduced.
Somehow, the acting pulls off through the bizarre of everyone, not like the movie as it becomes quite complex because of the recurring twists. Some people also claim that it is the best dark comedy that has been ever made, and the quirky masterpiece has impressed them, the sense of humor is also praised that been put into the making of the film.
Burn After Reading Plot
When the two gym employees find Osbourne Cox’s memoir, their plan to raise money for a cosmetic surgery unravels, and they pick them up as their find, and from then, a series of spy-like comedic thriller adventures begin. Osbourne’s erratic behavior and then his wife’s initiative to invite her boyfriend Harry, who is a womanizer, to move in. Harry accidentally meets Linda, one of the workers from the gym, and starts seeing her, as Linda gets to know that Hary is living at Cox’s residence, she persuades Chad, another worker from the gym to invade Cox’s house to find something more about the memoirs, he and Linda found. Unknowingly Harry shoots Chad but is unable to know his identity, then, he finds Linda distressed over the fact that her friend is missing and helps her find him.
Harry realizes in a series of events that he had shot dead Chad and presumes that Linda is a spy then flees panicking. Osbourne goes back to Katie’s house to collect his belonging but finds Ted, another guy from the gym, and shoots him, chasing him into the street and killing him with a hatchet.
Burn After Reading Ending Explained
The ending of Burn After Reading is abrupt for most people as they feel dumber than the characters at the end. The movie perfectly depicts the idiocy of our day-to-day lives. The consequences outweigh the actual cause a hundred times over and when asked, everyone will think it happened for some different reason. The film outs at the CIA headquarters, with the conversation between Osbourne’s former superior and the director where they talk about Osbourne being shot by a CIA officer and leaving him in a coma. He also mentions that Harry has been detained while trying to flee to Venezuela, to which the director replies about getting him onto the next flight to Venezuela rather than dealing with the custody. There’s also a mention about Linda, that how she will stay quiet about everything if they paid for her surgery.
The movie ends with the director being utterly confused because of the events that have transpired, approving payment for Linda’s surgeries, and then he closes that file. The ending left people in an intermixed state of liking or not liking the movie, but most of the audience appreciated the scene and were in complete awe of the story.
