I don't know why - whether it's me or him - but George Clooney just always bores me in movies. I can't think of any movie of him that I ever really enjoyed. Even O Brother, Where Art Thou? which is a movie that has amazed many people just did not touch me in any way. I'd also expected a different story when I heard about Intolerable Cruelty first. I thought it would be a serious, complex story, but it ended up as a romantic comedy that didn't make me laugh at least once. Just another overrated disappointment to me.

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SYNOPSIS from Rotten Tomatoes

Intolerable Cruelty is a romantic comedy about a man who wins in court and a woman who courts to win.

A mix of Beverly Hills high glamour and maliciously competitive fun, it brings together in movie matrimony the high-powered filmmaking talents of Academy Award ® winners BRIAN GRAZER (A Beautiful Mind, 8 Mile) and JOEL COEN & ETHAN COEN (Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) with two of the screen’s biggest and brightest stars, GEORGE CLOONEY (Ocean’s Eleven, The Perfect Storm) and Academy Award® winner CATHERINE ZETA-JONES (Chicago, Traffic), along with a cast of unusual pedigree, including Oscar® winner BILLY BOB THORNTON (Monster’s Ball, The Man Who Wasn’t There), Oscar® winner GEOFFREY RUSH (Pirates of the Caribbean, Shine), CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER (Barbershop, The Original Kings of Comedy), EDWARD HERRMANN (Nixon, The Emperor’s Club) and RICHARD JENKINS (Changing Lanes, The Man Who Wasn’t There).

Clooney portrays Miles Massey, a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney who has everything—and in some cases, two of everything. Despite his impressive client list, a formidable win record, the respect of his peers and an ironclad contract (the “Massey pre-nup”) named after him, he’s reached a crossroads in his life. Sated on success, boredom has set in and he’s looking for new challenges.