What is Hail Caesar?

Rating: 9/10 (7 February 2016)

Well this is the best way to put it. It's part satire, part western, part drama, part film noir, part epic...and all comedy! It's so random in the scenes that it cuts to, so if you're someone who get's thrown off easily, you won't like this movie. But it's great in the way that the other Coen brothers films were great. You have no idea what's going to happen next. The film doesn't have so much a plot, but an array of subplots, that all surround our main character. Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is a fixer in Hollywood who has to deal with the fact that major actor Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) has been kidnapped by a group of communist writers known only as "the future." And at the same time he has to keep it a secret from reporters Thora and Thessaly Thacker (Tilda Swinton). But that's not all. He also has to find the father for actress DeeAnna Moran's (Scarlett Johansson) baby, find a new movie and arrange the premiere for actor Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich), decide whether or not to take up a job offer for Lockheed, and investigate communist actor Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum). There's so much going on it'll make your head explode. And you'll be laughing all the way. Joel and Ethan have really done a good job on this one. Even though most of the actors are in only one or two scenes, they all do a good job. Frances McDormand for instance is in one scene only. But she absolutely kills it. This is destined to became a classic.