It proves that a good movie needs no big budget or special effects

Rating: 8/10 (31 January 2005)

How can you see that a movie maker has a lot of talent? Very simple: give him or her a small budget and an unknown cast to make a movie with. If the film is still any good, than you know you have found someone with more talent and brains than the average of today's Hollywood directors. Well, the Coen brothers, certainly seem to have the talent, because "Fargo" is more than just worth a watch. It has a good story, very nice acting as well as drama and some excellent humor to offer. They don't have to rely on special effects to make this movie work, the story, the direction and the acting have done it all by themselves.
Jerry Lundegaard is a hypocritical and dishonest car sales man who has a big financial problem. At first he doesn't know how to solve it, but than he has a great idea: his father-in-law is a very rich man, so Lundegaard decides that he will have his wife being kidnapped by some criminals, who are real losers. Her father will pay a lot of money to get her out of the hands of the criminals, he'll collect all the money and give a part of it to the criminals. The rest he will use to pay his debts with. But than everything goes terribly wrong and Lundegaard can do absolutely nothing about it to stop it.
Even though this may not be the most original movie I've ever seen, this still is one of the better. One thing that I'll always remember about this movie, next to the good acting, directing and story, is the immense amount of snow: it all looked so cold that it almost made me dive into my closet to find an extra sweater. I give this movie an 8/10. I really had a good time watching it.