My Top 10: George Clooney Films

For the past 20 years, George Clooney has become one of the popular actors and one of the big Hollywood sex symbols of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

His breakthrough came on TV, most notably on the popular American hospital drama E.R. From the late 90's, Clooney started being put on the big screen. The rest is history.
Clooney has been in many films with some of the best directors and has been involved in his fair share of Oscar success.

My top 10 seems pretty set when looking at his filmography. I'm sure there are still some big performances left to come out of him.

Before I announce my top 10, I must mention that I have discounted his roles in South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut and The Thin Red Line. Sadly, the roles were for one small scenes in each. So for that reason, I had to dis-credit them within this list.

Out of his 49 films, I have seen 27 of them. I will rank all of the films I have seen, and give a short review for each of my top 10:

27) Batman & Robin
26) Ocean's Twelve
25) The Monuments Men
24) Ocean's Thirteen
23) The Men Who Stare At Goats
22) Intolerable Cruelty
21) The Peacemaker
20) Out Of Sight
19) Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
18) The Ides Of March
17) The Good German
16) One Fine Day
15) Hail, Caesar!
14) The Descendants
13) Money Monster
12) Three Kings
11) Fantastic Mr. Fox

10) From Dusk Till Dawn - Quite a popular 90's action feature. It sees Clooney team-up with Quentin Tarantino in the leading roles as two criminals seek temporary refuge in an establishment that is run by people that are not who they seem to be.
I remember being completely shocked at the big twist in the film and it made for an enjoyable watch.

9) Good Night, And Good Luck - A tense newsroom drama based on the true events of a journalist taking down an American Senator.

With David Strathairn leading the way, Clooney plays the journalists co-producer.

It's short, sweet and straight to the point.

8) Tomorrowland: A World Beyond - Clooney's latest project as he stars in Brad Bird's latest family adventure.

Clooney plays a genius inventor banished from a place that is looking for hope for the future of mankind.
With the help of new recruit, the future may be saved.

7) Up In The Air - A clever romantic drama that sees Clooney play a man whose job it is to travel the country on a plane to fire people working for big organisations.

But with a trainee shadowing him, his lifestyle is turned upside-down with a potential love interest.

6) The Perfect Storm - I remember the hype surrounding its release. Since then, it is has been getting massively mixed review.

I found it to be very enjoyable. It has a stellar cast and terrific tension and emotion.

It sees a bunch o fisherman get caught up in an unusually intense storm and puts their lives in mortal danger.

5) Burn After Reading - I usually think a lot of the Coens brothers films are very good, but I don't fall head over heels for them.
However, this is one that I would happily watch multiple times.

The plot is quite hard to explain. But the whole tone of it is very funny which some brilliant performances, especially by Brad Pitt.

4) Michael Clayton - A brilliantly tense mystery drama about a lawyer on the run from his firm's fixer after breaking down when trying to defend a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a billion dollar law suit.

It is quite a chase and one that Clooney holds so well.

3) O Brother, Where Art Thou? - The Coen brothers return again, in an odd yet highly entertaining story.

It sees three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a tenacious lawman pursued them.

It is definitely one of the strangest Coen brothers film, and yet it works for me over all the others.

2) Ocean's Eleven - This could well the ultimate heist movie, and is one of the few re-makes that is by far superior to the original.

It sees a group of highly skilled people team up to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.

Clooney plays Danny Ocean who leads the group. His past drives him to starting this whole operation.

It is slick, fast-paced and great fun.

1) Gravity - A visual extravaganza set in space that sees a pair of astronauts survive an incident that destroyed their shuttle.

With one (played by Clooney) on his last mission, the other a first-timer (played by Sandra Bullock), they are both left adrift in space looking for a way to get back home.

It is amazing to watch on the big screen in 3D. Even on the small screen, the story and characters are enhanced. It is one of the best films of the current decade.