You can't make a good movie with a bad script

Rating: 3/10 (13 January 2018)

This movie gets an extra star for the really top-notch acting and the cinematography, both of which really stuck out for me. However, as I say in the title, you can't make a good movie out of a bad script.
This story just confounds me and it feels really amateurish, most things seem to happen for no reason. Though the first 20 minutes seemed to be going well, things really quickly broke down. Frances McDromand's character seemed to have a good point at first but that quickly degraded into her basically being the crazy woman who set fire to the police station, on top of everything else, her being downright mean to Woody Harrelson's character by the end of it, given the events of the movie. And the oddest thing, the only person with character development, Sam Rockwell, was a racist cop, and his character development has nothing to do with his racism! It's just weird choices like that which might have been corrected in another rewrite on the script, but this, as whole just feels schlock-y.