Enjoied it as a homage to the Hollywood Studio System of yesteryear.

Rating: 8/10 (5 February 2016)

For those of us who enjoy movies made in the Golden age of the silver screen and are fans, you'll love Hail, Caesar! even more as it is the perfect satire to that era, pin pointing certain issue of the time, like Alden Ehrenreich playing Hobie Doyle, an actor so perfectly type cast as a Cowboy that he can't do anything else. One of the funniest parts in the movie is when Ralph Fiennes who plays a director tries to give the Heavy accent buckaroo dialog lessons. Scarlett Johansson playing an American sweetheart whose being forced by the studio to marry, so that she will not have her baby out of wedlock. Then there's the part of the movie which reflects how a lot of screenwriters who wrote some of Hollywood's biggest pictures of the time had interest in the Communist party, which makes me reminisce of the Bryan Cranston starring film, Trumbo.
I'm surprise how little an element of homophobia was mixed into the content, but I guess that is a cliché done too many times.
All of this was being kept in line by Hollywood Fixer, Eddie Mannix played by Josh Brolin, in what seem to be just a normal day at the office, which happens to include the kidnapping of a major movie star, played by Major movie star, George Clooney, just before he was about to finished the final scene of Capital Studios' biggest film of the year, Hail, Caesar!
Advertised in the trailer to be the main plot, the kidnapping feels as much of a subplot as everything else, but does intertwine with the other subplots more regularly, with the main plot being more about the duties of Eddie Mannix in the Star System of Hollywood, so don't get too wrapped up in the plot, because it does not work too well as a linear narrative, that's not the point, the point is that the movie does a brilliant job of reflecting that time and era, with a slightly surrealistic approach that was golden age Hollywood. Even using CGI backdrops that make the film look like it was made in a sound stage of the 1950s.
It's another great Cohen Brothers movie worth getting into.