As confused and dull as the Sheriff's ramblings.

Rating: 5/10 (8 February 2008)

It had promise ..
Some suspense.
But by and large, it was as shambolic and dis-interesting as the Sheriffs pontification.
Did it strike you as being massively up its own butt and quite probably on a lot of coke? It was Tarantino without the laughs. Or interesting characters.
I mean, the assassin is scary. For five minutes. Then you realise he's just a psychopath, end of my interest. Whats interesting about a narcissistic psychopathic killer? Not a lot. He kills everyone: whoop-de f*** do.
The lead character, Brolin's guy, seemed to be at once rather smart and whenever the plot called for it for continuity, incredibly stupid. That I can forgive in a crap TV show on FOX but not from these two supposedly 'genius' writer/director Bros.
Then there was Woody. He appears, he shows some nous, you start to think about how its going to play out. Assassin guy kills him. D'oh. Didn't see him coming, despite being 'a pro' himself. OK. Makes sense. Not.
The ending made little sense to me. More rambling, strange metaphor, bit of dust, credits. Gripping.
If it was intended to be some lyrical diatribe about how the world has turned to s**, since the 'good old days' when there was 'the big plan'. I couldn't care less .. Christ you can hear that sort of naive/arrogant dross at any bustop. The world was nicer, the grass was greener, people didn't sh** on each other or kill and rape and maim for jollies. Uhuh. Those age tinted glasses everyone gets (no not glaucoma) for their 65th birthday.
As for the main character, who you have followed for over an hour (much of it uninteresting and uneventful) just dying. OK. That's fine, if it works, but I just felt cheated out of an hour .. we didn't even get to see how it happened. Just cut, fade, corpse.
I was really keen to see how he would manage to outwit the inevitable serial killer.
Some fanboi at work sounded off today about how he represented the 'violence in humanity, as illogical and inevitable'.
Clearly.
Give the man an Oscar.
Hell, give Tommy Lee one as well.
And me.
And the man who delivers my milk.
Is America so starved of original, arresting (screen) culture that anything slightly surreal with a dash of nihilism and not much dialogue wins hands down? Apparently .. Fargo this ain't. Avoid like Johnathon Ross and all the other retards who think this was a tour de force.