what is all the excitement about?!

Rating: 3/10 (16 August 2005)

You probably are not reading this--as my review will be one of 160,000 on IMDb for this film. And, because of that, my unusually negative review will remain unnoticed. I understand and I usually do NOT review movies that have many reviews because of this. However, this is another example of an Academy Award Winning (and nominated) film in recent years that disappointed me so much. Other such films would be The Last Emperor and The English Patient (yuck!).
So why did I dislike Fargo so much?! Well, first it is a one-note movie. Yup, all the actors do nice Dakota accents. That's cute,...for about 5 minutes--then it gets a little thin to base a movie on this! Plus, I found the movie way too conventional (despite the hype). I really preferred the much stranger and funnier Hudsucker Proxy from these same producer/director team.
You know the movie isn't THAT great when one of the funniest(?) scenes involves Steve Buscemi being thrown into a chipper shredder.