Extremely overrated, good first half average overall action flick

Rating: 5/10 (1 June 2016)

Unfortunately in a review it is essential to talk about the movie's terribly over-exaggerated positive reception, rather than just the movie in itself. The pretentious pseudo-intellectual clique has done it again: they've taken a terribly flawed piece and because of context and strong bias (a Coens film...) they've made it out to be this timeless masterpiece. Which honestly is ridiculous. The film plays out great for about the first hour plus. The plot is very light, some major elements never explained; but we're in this thriller and our attention is commanded. Eventually, the thin plot never seems to thicken, our hopes for fulfilling symbolism/meaning or at very least answers never satisfy, the dialog is completely bland, vapid and uninteresting all the way up to the last scene which is somehow supposed to hold a powerful weight apparently. The film totally lacks rhythm overall with, again, a strong first half but it seems the entire film settles with being told in the one same breath, utterly boring and insufficient towards the second hour. We're just given event after event, with the same old tone and no depth ever supplied. Added some details about the action sequences are very unsatisfying and badly carried out, and this thriller of a film isn't even convincing from that point of view. So very remote in its entirety, so very void of any genuine purpose, and quite average if not mediocre at what it's even supposed to be. It's not even fun spanning over 2hrs, it really feels long.