Painfully bad, but that doesn't matter, it's a Coen production.

Rating: 1/10 (4 November 2008)

People have probably rated this movie highly out of respect for the Coen's previous work. Other motives may include self delusion, as is so often the case. But Noel and Ethan's latest 'comical' entry was every inch as bad as their previous attempts featuring among other abominations "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Intolerable Cloonety".
I have yet to see a film by the brothers Coen that would inspire me to see it through to the end and "Burn After Reading" didn't give me much hope for the future either.
This Coen artifact is once again a film in which they attempted some weird and annoying amalgam of all sorts of movies that simply doesn't work. Adding to this a really abhorrent screenplay and the worst acting by Clooney and Pitt to date. Big names do not an utter miscast conceal. Maybe next time actors like Steve Martin, Lesley Nielsen or Jim Carrey could play the clowns in yet another meagre and clunky rip off of previous efforts. Not that I will bother to watch the next one, but at least people will have an honest warning up front.
Not really much to say about this movie other than that I struggled to make it through to the one hour mark before eventually I had to give up, that it sucked in every regard one could think of judging a film of comical intent and that once again the general public can't tell shÃ¯t from Shinola when it comes to rating a movie.
Cheers and thanks for reading.
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