Boring very poor show

Rating: 2/10 (23 October 2008)

Great big cast, Oscar winning writers and directors, but mostly a complete bore, that may have looked good on paper, but is really very poor. So George and Brad play against type, but apart from five good laughs there just is no point or relevance in the movie, which belongs to another Cold War era. It is in fact a very lazy reworking of 'Fargo' and it would not have found any daylight as a movie but for the names involved. Tilda Swinton bedding George Clooney is a good gag, if you know her views and politics, and her actual job revealed at the end is a pearler. Come on, George and Brad, you should know a decent script by now, after the utter c*** of Ocean's 12, so get the Coens to work a bit harder, not let them get away with this sort of shoddy, never very convincing, pseudo-fantasy black non-comedy!!!