I don't get it

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 2000)

I've read so many great comments on this movie, and heard so many good things before I saw it, and I really felt let down.
I just didn't get it. Was it a comedy that wasn't funny? An action film without action? I know it was a "true story" that wasn't true...so I just couldn't figure out what the point was.
I really didn't care about any of the characters. We never knew the wife well enough to care that she was being kidnapped thanks to her good-for-nothing husband. I never cared about him, since he was such a greedy, stupid, low-life loser. I cared less about the kidnappers. I liked Marge and her husband, but we didn't really get to know them. Our brief glimpse into their life was, for me, very unsatisfying.

The only line that made me even smile was the way everyone agreed that one of the kidnappers was "funny looking." This was a comedy? A family is torn apart and murdered over money disputes. This is comical? A policeman pulls a car over and gets shot in the head by the driver? Sorry, too close to reality for me to laugh.
Having never been anywhere near Fargo, I can't comment on the accents, except to say they were sometimes hard for me to understand. But that's cause I'm a Noo Yawka.
Marge's last line really summed it up for me, "I just don't understand."