Pretentious Drivel

Rating: 5/10 (9 August 2014)

The film starts by captivating the audience with slick and stylish filming, leading the watcher into a false sense of security. What could be an interesting film slowly envelopes into a plot-less, boring piece of pretentious drivel. The only thing which kept me captivated was the way the film was shot and the fact that the Coen brothers usually deliver.
The film left me not wanting to view anything with Oscar Isaac in again due to his lifeless approach to acting and 100 minutes in I was still waiting for the film to start never mind finish. The film left me empty inside having wasted nearly two hours of my life I will never be able to retrieve.
The film left me seriously wondering about the abilities of the Coen brothers and wonder what led them to release such a below par film.