VERY VERY Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (7 February 2016)

Don't let the trailers bedazzle you - the film is not nearly as good as the promotional clips infer. If you have seen the promotional trailers, you have seen ALL of the best parts of this film.
Considering the caliber of the talent involved, and the cost of this production, it is shameful that the Coen Brothers ended up with such a disappointing film. It is LOUSY. This is without a doubt their weakest feature in years - possibly the most disappointing film of all of 2016.
The basic problem with this production is the LOUSY script. there are four, or five, separate sub plots all rolling along. The audience quite naturally expects the last third of the movie to connect all of these radically different plots - to make sense of it all.
The first two thirds of the film are brilliant. The final third of the film appears to have been written by a totally different writer. Near the end of the film one of the characters boards a Russian Naval Submarine which happens to be coasting off the coast of Malibu. Then everything quickly starts to go down the drain from that point on.
The grand climactic ending is totally missing. There is no real resolution.
Fans of George Clooney, Josh Brolin, and Tilda Swinton, and especially Christopher Lambert will be shocked at how badly made up and poorly photographed all these folks are - - they look decades older than their actual ages. In his one scene Christopher Lambert looks more dead than alive. This is not "Comedy' it is cruel and mean spirited.
Alden Ehrenreich is the one bright spot in this film. He is amazing in what is essentially a minor role. His singing cowboy character is one of the truly funny characters in the entire movie. Ehernreich sings, plays the guitar, even does rope tricks with his food. Ah shucks, he is just the classic 1940s singing cowboy.
Channing Tatum also has a memorable scene in which he does a Gene Kelly type production number. He is delightful in his first scene - much of which can be seen in the trailers.
Tilda Swinton looks amazingly lifelike, at times. She poses her way through the few scenes she is in. She pretends to be talented, and the audience pretends to tolerate her efforts.
Don't waste your money on this one - watch it when it comes onto pay TV.