NOT true to life. So very much NOT true to life that this story becomes ridiculous.

Rating: 3/10 (30 December 2018)

This is suppose to be a drama. Drama needs a credible story. It hasnt got one. It is just a continous cop bashing story with no credibility in the story whatsoever. Only if the leading character would have been a terrorist or a psychotic serial killer this story would have rung true. But all these crimes (firebombing the police office) are done by a rational and intelligent middle aged mother who runs a souvenir shop. Has anyone EVER seen a mother firebomb a policestation, because the cops didnt solve the murder of her daughter? More of this kind of nonsense though is what you can expect in "3 billboards".
I suspect there must have been a (politically correct) reason why this ludicrous silly movie got so many awards, in America only. Maybe American people are so fed up with police brutality that they will praise any picture, in which roles are reversed and cops get terrorized for a change, instead of black and gay people. Literal quote from the movie indicating this cop bashing theme: "if you got rid of all the cops with vaguely racist leanings, you'd have only have three cops left. And all of them would hate fags."
However interesting reversing stereotypical roles may sound, (even in relation to police brutality), any drama still needs a credible story. And credibility is lacking big time in this silly picture, because of the ridiculous behaviour by the leading character who plays a firebombing mom (Frances McDormand). One just cant take her seriously halfway through the movie anymore. Her anger maybe true to life. For sure. Her complaints may be justified. But her actions just are ridiculous and make a laughing stock of this movie. An intelligent mom who is firebombing a police station and then they expect to be taken seriously? Who are they kiddin'?
Or is all this sillyness suppose to be funny? It isnt a black comedy either to me. Or is it? Then I must have forgotten to laugh a single time...