Major waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (30 January 2009)

Over the years, friends have warned me about Coen Brothers movies. "Not for you," has been their advice, knowing my aversion to violence in any form. But this one is billed as a "comedy" and my partner was interested, so I sat down with him to watch.
This is a truly terrible movie. I did not care in the least about any of the characters and could not find anyone who wasn't shallow, self-involved and completely unsympathetic, so strike #1 was no one to empathize with. Perhaps that is the Coen brothers' style--I don't know--but a little character development might have held my interest and made this less than a total waste of time.
Strike #2 is all the killing. Admittedly, I did not make it to the end--I checked out at the first murder--and am sorry I watched any of it. A real piece of moronic, mass trash that says a lot about the state of these United States and the hideous culture we live in. I failed to see anything funny about any of it. Ugh.