What a lot of twaddle.....

Rating: 2/10 (14 February 2008)

I have used IMDb as a reference and benchmark for films for a while now. I never registered, nor posted, nor any such thing.....until this film.
That's right, I went out of my way to register and go through the whole authentication nonsense just to second the title of this thread.
W. T. F.
I watched this movie because some nutters decided to rate this film so highly it featured in the top 250 movies of all time.....my goodness me do a whole pile of voters...and film makers...and film investors, not to mention actors, need to get some real social skills, go meet some people and find out what the world is really like cos this film is the biggest pile of mammoth dung I have seen since AI. No offence intended to anyone: Im speaking generically, not personally.
Pointless movie. Poorly shot in places - I can see where they were trying to be clever, but it just wasn't. Some interesting attempts at what i will now call 'movie jazz' (filming around the main event rather than the main event itself, bit like jazz musicians hitting the offkey note rather than on), but it was so haphazardly done, with too many incidental nobodies that it BARELY held itself together.
And the bad guy? PLEEASE! he was pathetically overly-intensified (and not event that intense anyway). Were we all supposed to be scared by his personal honour system? Or his methods? Or the fact that all the hit men in the film (well, all two of them) were 'superhunters' that could find you in minutes if your granny crapped in a trailer park 50 years ago? PLEASE! Some parts of the film were just SO terribly implausible (within the framework presented ie modern world, not some alien land with sci-fi options) that it was impossible to want to get behind any of the cast, good or bad, because none of them did anything worth relating to or agreeing with! (I don't want an answer to this, so don't give one - but WHOSE IDEA was the whole 'stick the suitcase through the ventilation shaft' scene? what an unjustifiable load of nonsense...what exactly was that meant to achieve?)
What a lot of twaddle. I have only EVER seen 3 films that I didn't want to watch to the end - and this was one.
And Im not a 'coen hater' or a 'coen lover' - im a film lover, and this one just doesn't deserve any lovin'.
The ONLY points it gets from me are for the way it was made - as with the vast majority of modern scripts the script was TERRIBLE...not just bad, but TERRIBLE! Every scene seemed to be making some sort of poor effort at 'clever' one-liner types of pregnant humour, but they were so amateur and so thinly veiled that I can only presume EVERYONE involved was a juvenile film buff who is so under-developed socially that they couldn't spot the thinness of it all as they were making it.
I will be shaking my head over this film for years to come...