Irresponsible overtly violent for no boring slow reason ..Trite B movie waste of time....and 10 bucks!

Rating: 6/10 (4 December 2007)

If this movie didn't have the Coen brothers name attached to it, or any of these brilliant actors, any person paying 10 bucks would surely have walked out of this b movie violent film - yet it shows how desperate people are for any entertainment these days.
I have to agree with Jonathan Rosenbaum from the Chicago Reader, who "admired the film's aesthetics, yet questioned its moral culpability: the Coens expend great energy on depicting horror, while encouraging us to "hypocritically shake our heads at the sadness of it all".
It is with great disappointment i say that the Coen brothers have not really risen to any level with this over priced b movie budget that is not listed anywhere for obvious reasons... if it was done for say 5M than perhaps it would do it justice as a campy amateur festival movie.
And the story has some great one liners and funny moments, but overall was a slow dull story line almost like Terminator meets Dusk/Dawn - and most of all -an implausible main character making a 'mistake' that he even says.. is probably a dumb idea' as a typical class A foreshadowing of the rest of the movie. Like some guy is going to find 2M in cash and go and return to the crime scene out of a 'conscious awakening' and give a dying Mexican thug - a jug of water.. give me a break. He would be in Vegas spending it like a rock star or donating it to charity or police.
The saddest part is the message the film sends out and that is what really bothered me throughout this overtly, way-over-the-top violent film - but if you like their old films like Blood Simple perhaps you'll enjoy this back to their roots film but it nothing new or fresh.
I gave it a 1 for effort and nothing more.... surely it will become a cult classic but did not walk away with anything from Cannes for a good reason. simply put. just more Americano over the top crap.