Another Misfire From the Coen Brothers

Rating: 4/10 (29 September 2008)

I will start off by saying that really miss the Coen brothers of the late '80s and '90s. The years when I used to go to a Coen brother's film on opening night and really enjoy myself. But unfortunately the last film I truly enjoyed from Joel and Ethan was 1998's "The Big Lebowski". The only exception being "No Country for Old Men".
The brothers seem to have had a string of very mediocre films such as "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "Intolerable Cruelty" and "The Ladykillers", all of which I saw in the cinema and left feeling empty inside.
I had hoped that perhaps this film would return my faith in the Coen brothers, falling into their Barton Fink/Miller's Crossing/Fargo era of wonderful film making but unfortunately "Burn Before Reading" is another lethargic offering from the Coens.
I realize that some people were first exposed to the Coens with "O Brother" and really enjoy the more recent films as opposed to the earlier works.
If you are a fan of "The Ladykillers" but do not care for "Raising Arizona", then you might want to see "Burn Before Reading".