(no spoilers)

If you’re a fan of well made movies, and who isn’t, then you can look forward to another generation of good movies from the Reitman family. Jason Reitman is the director and wrote the screenplay for the hit movie Thank you for Smoking.

Jason had good actors to work with. Aaron Eckhart did a great job in the lead. It isn’t easy to make a despicable character likable. Credit to the actor and writer here for not forcing us to like him but instead giving the viewer reasons to want to like the character.

Cameron Bright did a fine job as the son. I don’t think it was a particularly challenging role so you don’t walk away thinking, “Wow, what a great young actor.” It was more like one of those roles that good actors blend into and make you forget that your watching an actor.

What’s best about the movie is the way the story is told. The pacing is very good. There’s never a long drawn out moment where you want them to move on with things. And perhaps more importantly there’s never a moment where an actor does something that seems out of place or glossed over by the story.

Best of all the movie is intelligent and funny at the same time. You will certainly get a few good belly laughs out of the movie and even more chuckles. At the same time the movie allows us to perhaps get a better understanding of people which is never a bad thing.