No Movie for Any One

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2007)

After duds like Intolerable Cruelty, Ladykillers, O Brother and Lebowski, you think the Coen Brothers might be due for a good movie. Alas, NCFOM is about the worst piece of crap to hit the modern screen since Pulp Fiction.
The Coens made one good movie -- Fargo -- but other than that, where is the alleged genius of this overrated pair? I can't imagine Miramax will team up with these hucksters again after realizing poor box office. Yes, the critics liked the film and so do most on this board, but were they watching the same flick as me? I damn near fell asleep from boredom and, in fact, missed the "big moment" during Tommy Lee Jones' pathetic soliloquy that ends "and then I woke up." I woke up when the credits began to roll, wondering where was the music that Carter Burwell or somesuch got credit for, where was the logic of not knowing what happened to the money, who was chasing who, why it was necessary to keep the body count rolling, where were the feds, what did Ed Tom ever do in the movie that resembled efforts of a genuine law enforcement officer, how did Woody Harrelson manage to find Moss in 3 hours, how did Anton escape at the end, ad nauseum.
A wasted 9 bucks. Save your money.