The best of the Coens offerings to date

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2000)

As a huge fan of the Coens (arguably the best film makers in the entire industry) I was waiting for this film with all of the excitement of a child on christmas day, present in hand just waiting to start ripping. Fargo was the finest black comedy/film noir update I had seen for a long time so I figured the Big Lebowski would be something maybe slightly more low key, an above average film but perhaps nothing overly special. I was wrong. This film is, in my opinion, the best Coen brother movie if not the greatest black comedy ever committed to celluloid. The characters are established immediately, each needing only one line of dialogue to make you feel like you really know them which really invests the audience in the films plot. The dialogue itslef is the best of its kind, witty and stylised banter that could only be put together by Joel and Ethan Coen. In short this is an amazingly well crafted film that deserves to be recognised in the highest echelons (hmmm is my spelling correct?) of movie making. As close to perfection as you are gonna get from a black comedy (even better than Dead Mans Curve, which is certainly saying something)
Watch this film!!!