Almost unwatchable ... were the critics paid off??

Rating: 3/10 (21 February 2016)

Seriously, this movie was terrible. Poorly edited, the story has next to no plot. It's all subplots, really, with no overarching purpose. The producers themselves basically gave up, as there's no sound in this movie—literally, there will be minutes of silence on screen, like there's no situational soundtrack. Very odd. The actors save the movie, sort of: Hill and McDormand get one scene each, basically. Scarlett is barely in the film. There's a lot of Brolin, but that's about it. The best scene is the Tatum dance scene, and it's very hard to even think of a second scene in the movie that was actually good. The Ben Hur jokes are kind of funny if you get them, and Clooney is okay. But yeah, mostly you're just waiting for the film to end so you can leave. Since this movie wasn't released in Oscar season, you know it had to be less than stellar. But no one could have predicted such a train wreck of a story and overall movie. Don't both ever seeing this movie: IT IS TERRIBLE. To see critics giving it all these good grades defies logic. Great cast, terrible writing, because the cast actually has to have a purpose to make it a great film.