The Coens' funniest film? Only if "The Big Lebowski", "Raising Arizona" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" were never made

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2008)

It's been almost two months since "Burn After Reading" was released in the Venice Film Festival (27 August 2008 according to IMDb) but just yesterday 24 October 2008 was finally released in mi city. So this year I watched two Coen Brothers pictures on the big screen, with the first one I was agree with anyone who loved it, certainly "No Country for Old Men" is in my top 3 of 2007. "Burn After Reading" has mixed comments in IMDb and as for today of the 211 comments in total, 94 are from people who loved it and 107 from people who hated it. I had big expectations and I really wanted to be one of the people who loved the film, hell I love "The Big Lebowski", "Raising Arizona" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" well actually I love most of the Coen Brothers pictures but I didn't loved "Burn After Reading", I don't hated it either but for sure I was expecting more.
The cast is full of stars, I found mostly annoying Clooney but he is amazing in my favourite Coen Brothers film. Malkovich is certainly good but his character complement the character of Swinton to make an annoying couple. Then Pitt enters and we have the best part of the entire film. His character is just fun and he will have a partner. McDormand's character is just like Pitt's and is fun however her story is sad, basically we have two kind of persons: the "smart" ones and the stupid ones. The "smart" and powerful ones f*cked Osbourne Cox (Malkovich) who is also one of the "smart" ones. Then you have his wife who is f*cking him and who will f*ck him really well. Clooney is Harry Pfarrer who practically f*cks everything. So we have Pitt and McDormand's characters, Chad Feldheimer and Linda Litzke, who apparently have a simple routine, a fine job and enough "innocence" to make us laugh. I really like Pitt's character, he is just fun and Linda could have been just that but her sad story and the sad story of Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins). Linda wants to have a new face and a new body and she is f*cking Harry Pfarrer. For me one of the best moments is the action of taking the information to the Russians. Chad Feldheimer and Linda Litzke never knew a sh*t, they just knew that they could blackmail Cox, they knew they had some CIA sh*t so they bring the sh*t to the Russians! And when Pitt is killed all we have are the "smart" ones with power. Hey and J. Jonah Jameson, he is quite funny.
So "What did we learn?" Well, that those persons who claims that "Burn After Reading" is the funniest Coen Brothers film since "The Big Lebowski" are just lying. Also I felt in a similar way that when I watched "The Ladykillers", then I felt that the film was nothing special but right now I kind of want to watch it again so maybe a couple of years later if not more I will want to watch again "Burn After Reading". Hell, I have already, and finally, "The Hudsucker Proxy" on DVD, just hoping it is as great as "The Big Lebowski", "Raising Arizona" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (just considering the comedies of the Coens).