Very optimistic, perfectly chill outing and just great pastiche of detective movie!

Rating: 8/10 (26 March 2006)

Joel and Ethan Coen - well known post-modernists, the most famous next to Quentin Tarantino, masters in conventions's jugglery, the only Hitchcock's successors in the field of suspense (for example "Barton Fink") once again had a fling at viewer. Once again we are dealing with film labyrinth full of citations, conventions and misleads. Brothers, like always, in masterly way changing conventions, and all of that - accumulation of extremely funny scenes and episodes, funny and witty dialogs and loony characters - drowns in smoke of absurdity. The movie is made - like every Coens production - very shipshape: cinematography (of genial Roger Deakins), production design and set decoration (also great Dennis Gassner) and acting. In the movie we can enjoy such great leading actors as Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges (his BEST role), great characteristic actors like Steve Buscemi, John Goodman or John Turturro and also masters in supporting like Philip Seymour Hoffman. Important fact is that characters played by Bridges, Goodman, Buscemi and Turturro were written SPECIALLY for THESE actors.