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Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2008)

I'm still asking myself the question. . *did* I enjoy this film? I'm really not sure. What was the film about again? A leaked CIA disk is used as blackmail and a string of characters are strung together .. getting involved with each other and some of them wind up dying. . and it wasn't a pointless movie because I laughed as several parts of the film .. but the other parts? I am a big fan of No Country. I like the Coens humour. But I can't help feeling that I wasted an hour and a half of my time trying to decide if I was enjoying it. I was not 'entertained' as such. I like how the Coens bring the characters out, but this was obviously not filmed at any great expense. No special photography. No really engaging acting, save that the different characters were amusing.
I'm not going to give this film any stars because I truly have no idea if I care enough :) Not that it's a bad film. I would only recommend Coens fans watch this, other people may find themselves staring blankly at the screen as a scene ends leaving the theater in silence.
I think they relied heavily on the swearing to raise laughter, which to be fair it did but on more than one occasion I found it to be unnecessary. I also found one key sequence in the film a little overly violent. I don't need to see somebody getting brutally axe murdered in the street.
Overall, I am not left with a great deal . . only to wonder what I was watching, but maybe that is the point. Who gives a rats rear end about the plot because it was character driven idiocy.