Style of Coens at its best

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2020)

The Coen brothers are one of the best comedy writers in the cinema today, this film has all the components of its history; characters that are complete idiots and losers whose lives are altered as a result of a crime, Burn After Reading seems to be a silly film at first sight but it is not, in fact it has a very intelligent and well thought out story that works like a satire of American adult society, the film presents complex and deep characters very well written with the characteristic seal of the Coen.
The hilarious performance of Brad Pitt and his character is one of the best things about the movie, by the time Pitt made this movie he was over 40 years old, however here he looks like a twenty-year-old gym instructor in very good shape, the character of JK Simmons, although it almost does not appear, is one of those powerful characters that the Coen put in their movies for a short time but their weight in the plot is surprising, every word they say leaves their mark.
The violence in this film is not stylized or aesthetic, there is a half-way murder that is depicted as dry as it should be and something very common in the Coen films, the film's comedy is limited to physical comedy and witty dialogues, this is probably the weakest work of the Coen brothers so far, but even a lazy Coen movie ends up being interesting and not disappointing at all.