The Inside is empty

Rating: 2/10 (15 March 2014)

Slow, dull, boring. I can't believe I'm saying such about a Coen brothers movie. After watching I thought what's wrong with me, I love Coen brothers movies, they're among my all-time favorites, what did I miss, why did I not "get" this? The setup is so appealing; the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early 60's, great right? New York in the winter, old cars, subways, apartments, sidewalks, snow, all the visual points were perfect. It appears there was supposed to be some meaning to the cat escaping through the apartment door early and then the same scene repeated near the end but the cat does not escape, the meaning escaped me. A hint of early Bob Dylan following Davis on stage as Davis goes out the back door to get his ass kicked, didn't stir me. By the end I found that I felt entirely apathetic about what I had just watched, there was pretty much noting entertaining about it. This movie offered nothing beyond the period imagery. I wonder if it didn't have the Coen label would there be 9's and 10's in some of these reviews?