No!

Rating: 1/10 (9 February 2016)

The brothers-ever-grimmer no longer have anything to say; perhaps they are in the thrall of yes-men; and now cynically have betrayed their audience. The marketing, however, was superb: the promise of such talent... A little taste and you thought, "Finally, a true sophisticated Hollywood comedy." And then you get there and Frances McDormand gets less than a minute. The lure turned out to be nearly all cameos. As for the architecture: big ideas, all garbled. Pieces of something but nothing more. So disappointing. The truth is, this is not the beginning of decline but confirmation. But you wonder how could they have gotten this to market? Who would have taken this on? For sure there has always been a cynical streak in Coen films, but in the better films, mixed with significance. Now, nothing. Where is Mel Brooks when you most need him?