Very thinly plotted and just above average acted. Some mix ups and double crossings from some of the mafiosi crossing paths, but we don't really care about any of them really, no background on them, just some vague talk on game fixing. The minor character of Casper is a joy to watch and there are some brilliant understated comedic lines from him, but the others are all paper thinly written and forgettable. I don't like Gabriel Byrne, he's not much of an actor, but he's half decent here, just barely. Marcia Gay Harden is atrocious though. They are making this fuss about this plain broad, the guys who own every working girl in town. Give me a break. It's very easy to tell she got the part from the window, good connections though I ll grant her that.
What else. Ah, again it proves that most film viewers are morons if they proclaim this thinly written and forgettable story as a masterpiece. Fairwell my lovely is a great film, and so is the other raymond carver film they shot, the big sleep, but this is just trite. Of course its not the disgrace with Stuart Cox characters that the Cohen's write these days (malcovich in burn after reading) but it ain't good either. Of course as per usual some brilliant Cohen wit every thirty minutes or so, and the usual great cinematography but that's about it.
I am giving it four stars while it should be five or six just because I had high hopes for it and didn't meet the expectations at all.
A very disappointing film all in all. It really bugs me how a film like this gets such high grades, a film so vacant and soul less as this, a gangster farce, and vapid in its own genre really. Who cares about a half wit small time gangster who never as much as emotes to anything in the film, at least give us some clever twists here, everything is so boringly predictable.
Well, the Cohen's being the jewry they are got all the funds they could to keep making more films after this and luckily we did get a masterpiece in Lebowski. But it seems lately their films are worse than millers' crossing, very stupid crap they make nowadays, just utter farce garbage...shame really cause they are some of the people that are really doing cinema in the states. Let's hope they get some of that talent back, because I am sure they too know it that burn after reading and the other one with clooney and zeta jones are phone ins.
What else. Ah, again it proves that most film viewers are morons if they proclaim this thinly written and forgettable story as a masterpiece. Fairwell my lovely is a great film, and so is the other raymond carver film they shot, the big sleep, but this is just trite. Of course its not the disgrace with Stuart Cox characters that the Cohen's write these days (malcovich in burn after reading) but it ain't good either. Of course as per usual some brilliant Cohen wit every thirty minutes or so, and the usual great cinematography but that's about it.
I am giving it four stars while it should be five or six just because I had high hopes for it and didn't meet the expectations at all.
A very disappointing film all in all. It really bugs me how a film like this gets such high grades, a film so vacant and soul less as this, a gangster farce, and vapid in its own genre really. Who cares about a half wit small time gangster who never as much as emotes to anything in the film, at least give us some clever twists here, everything is so boringly predictable.
Well, the Cohen's being the jewry they are got all the funds they could to keep making more films after this and luckily we did get a masterpiece in Lebowski. But it seems lately their films are worse than millers' crossing, very stupid crap they make nowadays, just utter farce garbage...shame really cause they are some of the people that are really doing cinema in the states. Let's hope they get some of that talent back, because I am sure they too know it that burn after reading and the other one with clooney and zeta jones are phone ins.