Too much avant, not enough garde.

Rating: 4/10 (3 February 2014)

An uninteresting movie from start to finish. NO plot to speak of, just a week in the life of a narcissistic jerk hole. The whole movie is character development of the title character whom the viewer knows inside and out within twenty minutes. If this were directed by someone we'd never heard of than NOBODY would be talking about it. When the thing that makes you want to see a movie in the first place is John Goodman (that one guy from that show that hasn't been on in twenty years and who hasn't been relevant in ever) having a bit part, that is not good. The fact that he's now older and fatter does not make him a Hollywood treasure. Justin Timberlake couldn't even save this and he sings in this movie. Not everything the Coen brothers do is automatically a cinematic masterpiece that pokes fun at the banality of modern life and leaves us richer for having seen it people. This is a pile of a waste of time. Try again boys.