Another Silly Bloodbath from the Coen Brothers!

Rating: 1/10 (23 November 2007)

Anyone --- except the pseudo-intellectual elite --- who expects a quality movie based on the All Time Best Movie #45 rating on this site is in for a sad disappointment, and a waste of 2 hours.
The Coen Brothers have been generating smug and self-loathing film noir wannabees for the past 25 years. Each time the loonies crawl out of the woodwork to level instant praise on whatever turkey the Brothers have roasted. In most cases, as here, more observant eyes will see only a pair of psychopaths who enjoy serial murders, creating new ways to kill and new (stupid) motivations for it. At least movie-making keeps these two would-be killers preoccupied.
This time around, their imaginary multi-killer walks around with an oxygen tank-thing with a hose, using it like an air-gun he blows people's brains out, one after the other, for little or no reason. Supposedly interested in a suitcase full of $100 bills, he really prefers killing people -- like PacMan likes eating them. It reminds me of Richard Pryor's sick joke about killing people "because they were home."
Tommy Lee Jones has starred in about 40 better pictures, and my only insight as to the multiple 10 ratings is that pseudo-intellectualism feeds on itself and can serve as a substitute for forming one's own opinion. Make no mistake, this movie has no saving grace.