Corner Office is an absurdist, surreal workplace comedy where the comedy is dry, abstract, and insular. Only Jon Hamm’s voiceover is the comedy… I think? I’m not sure… the flick is so dry that it’s equally possible the screenwriter didn’t know he was writing a funny.

It stars Hamm as a new hire at monolithic office building working for a company with an abstract purpose. We don’t know what they do nor what Hamm’s job is either. But he works with people he feels superior to and he feels he’s owed something in the form of a hidden wood-paneled corner office that only he can see.

I dig the dry, bland monotonous office chic… it makes me say ‘I know he can get the job, but can he DO the job?”. It’s a bit of deserved corporate satire in physical form. Hamm playing a corporate drone who doesn’t understand these humans surrounding him is great casting, calling back ironically to the debonair character that made him famous.

And I love the abstract concept of the office only he can see. I love what this film is trying to do. But it only half-way gets there… mainly because it’s way too long for its concept. This flick has enough content for a good hour, if that. But since it feels the need to extend itself, it gets a little tiresome along the way.

I wish I could give it a higher rating since it does so much so well… but it just doesn’t have enough story or ideas for an hour forty minutes of screentime. But, hey, I still enjoyed the bits I enjoyed.

Score: 78