Thin slice, great body !

Rating: 8/10 (2 June 2016)

The film "Hail Caesar" is an excellent example how someone can take a very thin slice and give it a full body from attention to details embodied by underacting actors and make it very interesting... ...its an extremely thin slice (best way to describe the lack of plot), a story coveted by loose threads and unresolved anecdotes, but by the means of great direction and great actors forced into underacting, they manage to pull of something which is really really interesting... there is a Fargo'sk lack of ambition which eventually turns out to reach far higher than any ambitious act attempting to depict the same or more, the Coen trademark... a flick where the after-movie experience is just as great as the in-movie experience... highly recommended ! Casting alert: Josh Brolin is incredible as the underplayed main play... Spoiler alert: Clooney and Scarlett J. basically plays themselves while Tatum only plays two parts, the drunk, tap-dancing, singing & swinging, homo-erotic Sailor and the patriotic pet- loving Russian Spy... not sure if that says more about Tatum, the Coen bros or Clooney & Johansson... Second spoiler alert: The unfitting musical intermezzo featuring Tatum is actually well choreographed and should deserve a mention of its own... very odd episode, which really seems to have no point, its absolute disconnect from the rest of the story is provocative... perhaps a dozy period in the post-production or perhaps a stroke of pure psychological genius by the Coen bros as it comes at a time in the storyline which actually calls for relief... I guess only a F2F with the Coen fellas would help to clarify if this truly is a stroke of genius or just good luck... The Coen bros are proving their continuous ability to not only adopt Jarmusch's and Lynch's ability to cater for details, but also to entertain like a Hitchcock or Welles !