This is the official movie trailer for The Descendants, a new film from director Alexander Payne. It stars George Clooney as a rich husband and father who is forced to look at life after his wife lands in hospital.
The Descendants is by the director of Sideways and About Schmidt, both fantastic films that kept me compelled from start to finish.
The Descendants is the kind of movie that needs a great actor leading it. There are no big action sequences to tempt the eye, and the storyline looks rambling and a little dull. So it’s Clooney’s job to keep you watching.
I think he will, because he’s a fine actor. In the same way Jack Nicholson and Paul Giamatti do in About Schmidt and Sideways respectively. But I still think I’ll wait until this comes out on DVD. It just doesn’t feel like a film that needs to be watched in a theater.
