Such negativity!

Rating: 10/10 (8 November 2002)

Boy, what's with all the whiny comments about this film? Either you like the Coen Brothers or you don't - no need to get personal!
I am a fan, and anyone who thinks they could sit down and write a Coen script over a few beers with their mates should try doing that some time. They are geniuses of the understatement and write the kind of observant blackly humourous dialogue I would kill to be able to write, (not-with-standing improvisational leeway with their always top-notch casts).
However I don't indiscriminately love everything they do. Films like 'The Big Lebowski' and 'O Brother' don't seem to hit the mark for me. But 'Blood Simple' and 'Fargo' are so brilliantly real and surreal at the same time I get a total high every time I see them.
'Fargo' is just great entertainment as far as I'm concerned. Frances McDormand and William H. Macy are amazing and Steve Buscemi is just always great. And by the way - it's not a true story - they were kidding.