Not their best work

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 1999)

I'm a BIG fan of the Coen Brothers. I've seen all of their movies, and while The Big Lebowski was a pretty good film and was basically very entertaining, I would rank it right near the bottom of their movies. I thought Bridges and Goodman were very good, but there just wasn't anything in the movie that really grabbed you and held your attention, as there is in Blood Simple, Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, Fargo, even The Hudsucker Proxy. Although I was essentially disappointed, if this is one of the worst of the Coen Brothers offerings (and I think it is,) that's not too bad of a thing, because it's still a pretty good flick. One of the reasons I'm such an admirer of theirs is the fact that their movies really are not only unique compared to other popular movie makers, but they are truly unique from each other. They are very inventive, really as good as we have today.