Story with no ending.

Rating: 1/10 (12 February 2008)

There is nothing redeeming for any of the characters in this story. I read a review giving this movie a rating of 8.6 and out of 300 words of glowing praise the word "bleak" was the only clue. It was a sorry waste of two hours of my time. My advice for anyone considering an evening out to see this movie is to find out plenty about the story first. The ending is made up of a large collection of loose ends that go nowhere. This movie goes to great lengths to prove it. Great acting but so what? There is a scene (no spoiler) where a bad guy and a good guy are on either side of a door. There is a huge buildup for this scene only to find out that the bad guy wasn't really there after all. Then there is no explanation for why I am given this visual which is fake. Is this supposed to make me stand in awe of the Coen brothers and their artistic genius? Not happening for me.