This trailer starts out on a low note with, of all things, a lawyer joke: Hugh Jackman asks, "So you like this work?" Ewan McGregor: "It's all right if you like working with numbers. Do you like being a lawyer." Jackman, with the punch line: "It's all right if you like working with asses." It's possibly the most tired joke on the planet, but they somehow thought that would suck viewers into the trailer. From there, though, it actually gets sort of interesting (no more lawyer jokes; I promise). It seems slick lawyer Jackman takes geeky numbers guy McGregor to some sort of secret sex club, and ultimately unravels McGregor's previously buttoned-down life. See, there are rules at this secret sex club, and McGregor breaks them all when he meets Michelle Williams' character and falls for her. Then she somehow disappears, and it Jackman seems to be the one to blame. Or is he? And McGregor will stop at nothing to find her, apparently. Because their one night, when he was paying her to be with him, was so magical. What makes this trailer halfway decent is that it's unclear what this secret sex club is all about, who the bad guys are, what Michelle Williams has to do with all of it, and what happens in the end. There is something about Jackman putting on glasses and impersonating McGregor, and at least two of the main characters have a gun at some point in the movie. Oh, and there's the fact that McGregor is an uber-geek who can solve mathematical things easily, which helps him in this situation for some completely inexplicable reason. All in all, not bad.
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