The Coen Brothers Are Hacks...And I'm Sick of It!

Rating: 2/10 (29 December 2008)

I'll bet my life that Burn After Reading, in its early process, was initially designed to be a serious movie. But since The Coen Brothers are total hacks and incapable of writing a truly passable movie, that idea was scrapped and eventually turned into this absurdest mess we have now stupidly labeled as a "black comedy." Let's get one thing straight. "Black comedy" is codeword for "lazy script in disguise". Have the vastly overrated and mediocre Coen Brothers stumbled into writer's block? Did they realize that the movie made no sense whatsoever ever and to appeal to the so-called "intellectual movie-viewers" they had to add scenes of 'that old guy that was in Juno' to show that ultimately the movie making no sense was REALLY the 'point of the movie' and it was all an intentional ploy? Did they not know that an intelligent viewer would catch onto this trick? Beneath the absurdism of Burn After Reading lays a very badly written script that has no layers and no crust. All I see in this movie are terrible characters that were originally designed for what was probably going to be a serious crime thriller, but once the Coen Brothers realized how moronic the characters were and how stupid the plot was, the Coen Brothers instead opted to turn the characters into walking dufuses and turn the plot from serious to absurdism.
Ladies and gentleman, this isn't an intellectual movie that you have to 'get'. It's a poorly designed movie that tacked on the extra absurdism to pass off as wit.
Seriously, this was one of the worst movies I've seen in '08.