Remind me never to visit North Dakota

Rating: 2/10 (3 February 2007)

The movie had a great concept and it was actually written very well, but... I don't know if it was good acting or bad acting, but every character in this movie sickened me. Their behaviorisms, their speech, their rationale just drove me insane. Mr. Lundegard (William H. Macy) was a train wreck, the criminals he was dealing with were inept, his father-in-law was a boorish old bastard, his wife was just annoying, and the sheriff was a pregnant Columbo.
It's ideal to do a movie about a crime that goes horribly wrong due to lousy criminals, but make it a comedy or something. This was supposed to be the real deal crime drama type, but these people were so pathetic that I couldn't bear to watch them. And besides that, what possesses a sheepish, meek man like Lundegard to try to pull off such an extravagant crime like have his wife kidnapped? Though I couldn't stand it, somehow I stomached the movie. I forced myself to watch it like a child forcing down lima beans just so I could be fair in my critique. But what was worse than anything... what topped it all off... what was just the splinter under the fingernail, the nails on the chalk board, the reason for shoving screwdrivers in both ears...
THEIR ACCENTS!!! AAAAAH. I ABSOLUTELY HATED, ABHORED, DREADED, & LOATHED THEIR ACCENTS. Especially the wife. How can anyone who talks like that be taken seriously??? If I talked like that I would choose to be a mute, or I would rip out my vocal chords so that no one would have to be tortured by my voice.