About as suspenseful as The Sound of Music

Rating: 8/10 (29 November 2007)

OK, I gave it 8/10 for the photography and the acting. The story? Come on. By the time Woody Harrelson's character is rubbed out, does anybody seriously think anybody is going to stop Anton from killing Moss? The Coens don't even give us the satisfaction of seeing Moss done in ... and he certainly deserved it, the way they had him screw around with the money when he just should have thrown it in his truck and got the hell out of Dodge, so to speak. I have no idea where people who are calling this movie "suspenseful" are getting it from. No confrontation between any of the 3 major characters, none of the cat-and-mouse you'd expect along the lines of The Third Man ... and watch this comment be attacked by the "I get Coen Brothers movies and you don't" crowd. Miller's Crossing was better. The Man Who Wasn't There was better. This is not their best work. Sorry.