sorry but the critics and the academy have yet again got it all wrong

Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2008)

once again the name of the coen brothers ensures that the slavish critics will heap praise on mediocre material. this film was interesting for the first hour, then the suspicion that it is not going to go anywhere starts to dawn. after so many homily stories and not great dialogue the film starts to bore. the acting by all the leads is very good and it is that more than anything else that keeps you watching. everything in the second half is repetitious, the barden character is made out to be some sort of philosopher, ( a very bad and trite one) the coens think the dialogue is profound, its not. but the worst thing is how critics have fallen for nothing, we live in a constant state of the emperor's new clothes now, how this film ended up as the best film of the year is utterly beyond me, the two big critic's films last year were this and there will be blood, both films in my view were possibly the most boring films of the year.