A disgusting piece of work

Rating: 1/10 (6 August 2009)

Self indulgent, stupid, illogical, incomplete, needlessly violent, immoral, etc, etc, need I go on? The Coen brothers should have all of their money and trophies taken away and then they should be put in jail for around 25 years.
A beautifully photographed but ultimately empty homage to the brooding maniacs in our society. And not a very well done homage at that.
I've enjoyed other of their movies, but I've seen a pattern emerge over the last few films: they love pools of dripping blood in their work. The puddles of fake blood are like a recurring character that appears over and over in every one of their films. To what end? Why are they so fascinated with blood? The very stuff of life and they display no respect for it or for life itself, for that matter.
Do yourself a favor, stay away from this movie. It's just stupid and disgusting. Only a pretentious bore so impressed with their pseudo-intelligence would appreciate this mess: "Ohh, how clever, I'm sooo glad that I understand it. Too bad nobody else will because they're not as sophisticated as I am."