Cameo-fest. Not Entertaining

Rating: 3/10 (10 July 2016)

In the 1950s Capital Pictures is making a movie about Jesus Christ called "Hail Caesar" starring Baird Whitlock (George Clooney). Long story short, he gets kidnapped and Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), production executive, runs around trying to solve movie production problems with the stars and learns about the ransom demand for the return of Whitlock.
The most exciting and entertaining scene in here is with Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehreneich) a cowboy movie star. While waiting for a starlit to take to his cowboy movie premier we see him practice with his rope and boy is he good. We could have watched him for a longer time, but
The rest of the movie is not as entertaining or interesting. Eddie Mannix solves problems on the run and do we care? No. Eddie is offered a big job with an aircraft company and he has a decision to make. Do we care? Not at all.
Nothing is funny or even clever. Who wrote this? We do see different movie scenes as they rehearse for the real thing when the cameras do roll later on. Do we care? No. The Sailor dance sequence was okay, but was too long in this non-plot movie.
The kidnapping leaves Whitlock with impressions that the movie capitalist system keeps the little guy down and he's on board with that. He likes what he hears This and the kidnapping itself takes care of the main plot, if it was a plot at all. But to be fair we are very impressed with Clooney's Whitlock when he talks about the Christ on the Cross in front of the Cross. Very moving and could have been used in a legitimate Jesus Christ story. Very moving.
Notables that really don't add much to the movie and why they are there is a mystery because there wasn't much of a plot to get excited about: Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum, Frances McDormand, Jonah Hill, Robert Picardo, David Krumholtz.
After watching this I have to ask myself why was this movie made as it was not entertaining, had no real plot, had no funny or even clever lines. It was more like a cameo-fest with no purpose. To put it frankly we didn't care about anything in this movie. Yes, the acting was good all around, but nothing went anywhere and oh, we just didn't care. See? (3/10)
Violence: No. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.