Excellent but underrated film

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

George Clooney doesn't have the visual imaginations of a great director. He does a competent job. The best thing he does is to point the camera at Sam Rockwell. Sam rocks out on this crazy story.Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell) is a liar, womanizer, schemer, TV producer, and a CIA trained assassin. The first on the list is the most important one of them all. Based on his book and Charlie Kaufman's screenplay, it goes into some less than believable parts of Barris' life. Although Kaufman's script was changed by Clooney. CK's version would probably be too daring for Clooney's amateur hands.This is good starting point for an actor doing directing. It doesn't have a sharp interesting point of view. It does work as a platform for Sam Rockwell.

From the man who created such revolutionary concepts as "Date Game", "The Gong Show" and "The Newlywed Game", the predecessors to modern-day exploitational reality TV shows, comes "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", the autobiography of Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell). Behind the facade of a the sexually crazed game-show producer / host lies something way more devious: a ruthless CIA contract killer...In his debut George Clooney shows immense promise, a well-trained eye and countless intuition. Due to the gross uncertainty regarding Chuck Barris's self-proclaimed CIA involvement, Clooney uses outtakes from interviews with various people who worked with him in the past in order to instill an atmosphere of uncertainty regarding the autobiographical truth. Using outdated lensing he also manages to transport the cinematographic feel of the times and help viewers immerse into the whacked out reality presented by Barris - an uncertain grainy world. Was he a spy or not? The answer will probably not be known for many years, if ever. The biggest fault however seems to be the overly cheeky, going for slightly over-scaled humour instead of analysis. Also detrimental is the apparent focus on the CIA-life of Barris and less on the mind of a person, who changed game-shows and television forever. Despite some admirable qualities Charlie Kaufman's script jokingly ventures too far into the obscurity of the CIA operative spy-scene (which at the same time underdeveloped and chaotic), leaving the drama hanging. Also a movie for true fans of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with adorable, albeit superfluous guest appearances from Matt Damon, Kevin Bacon or Maggie Gyllenhaal.

there are times when i need to see films that are intelligent, provocative, questionings as to our nature as human beings.chuck is supremely gifted in insight and spontaneous creativity to the point of finding himself alone, a zoo-keeper in a zoo of humans. successful TV producer, loved by a most adorable woman, affairs, money and acclaim fall to him. the paradox is that he still needs a fatal fix. the film is not so much about the CIA, the Gong Show or the meaning of love. the film is more about how we handle the paradox called life however we find ourselves living it.the actors that turned up in this movie were a complete bonus, an icing. beautifully shot, a beautiful ordinary world.

The main interest I would hold in this film would be that Drew Barrymore was one of the stars, and since I am always eager to get my hands on anything she touches, which in my opinion turns to gold, I finally got around to seeing this movie about a man who detests himself and deems himself unaccomplished despite hosting "The Newlywed Show", "The Gong Show" and "The Dating Game", and claiming to be a CIA operative in his book, "The Unauthorized Autobiography of Chuck Barris."When George Clooney explains that one does not feel sorry for someone who feels sorry for themselves, but instead feels sorry for someone who doesn't feel sorry for themselves and instead tries to push themselves along, he was speaking a gross understatement. Whether or not Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell) was or was not a hit-man, I don't know or care. I found it impossible to care for the boring, self-serious characters in this film, especially Chuck Barris. There were some amusing parts to this film, such as when Chuck Barris tricks Patricia (Julia Roberts) into poisoning herself, and Penny (Drew Barrymore) is dancing around the office, and Chuck Barris telling Penny that he was a hit-man after they got married and her reaction. I feel this movie should have been much shorter and much lighter, and Drew Barrymore's excellent and different-from-what she usually plays role the only source of lightness in this film. 3/10