slow and barely any sort of plot

Rating: 4/10 (6 February 2018)

I came in thinking it would be some sort of interesting whodunnit with an actual coherent plotline & that we'd get to the bottom of the murder of McDormand's daughter. Instead we're taken on this bizarre, tedious journey into the lives of the residents of a small town in Missouri. The deputy sheriff hates McDormand, then he's a racist, then he's not, then he's throwing a guy out a window. People are getting seriously assaulted and injured left right & centre but in Epping that hardly even raises an eyebrow from the local police. Some of the dialogue is frankly nuts, particularly the sequence where Woody Harrelson and his wife discuss Oscar Wilde & penises. At that stage I was looking at my watch and just hoping it would end soon. The only real noteworthy performance is from Rockwell but even his performance just does not fit in well with the overall aimless direction of the plot. Really disappointed after reading the reviews and seeing it nominated for all these awards.