Catch-22 review – George Clooney's dizzying, daring triumph

The actor-director’s visually impressive adaptation of Joseph Heller’s second world war novel is a violent, frenetic and disquieting small-screen satire

There’s a moment late in Catch-22, as a second world war bomber returns from a mission over Italy, that I realized planes can land with their engines on fire. The plane, smoke trailing its left engine, wobbles to the runway, which seems ridiculous – if the fire is literally at hand, how can it just land normally? But apparently, that’s the way it is.

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