- Sensibility: The interactions between the characters are very clunky and often make it hard to suspend disbelief.
- Cinematography: Visually rather uninteresting. Lighting choices are fairly bland and the production design is stark, but not in a way that adds to the narrative. However, costuming
is interesting and adds the only bit of color present throughout the film. The style of the film in addition to the acting miscues gives the film a bad daytime-tv vibe.
- Energy: Unfortunately, very dull. The story has no purpose or direction, and there's nothing redeeming visually or interesting about the characters to sustain interest through the aimlessness. Add pn top of this that
a large portion of the dialogue feels like it's being read directly off the page and this movie is hard to sit through.
- Narrative: The story drifts aimlessely, introducing plot points that are never resolved or even re-visited. However, there's no reward for all the wandering, as the big mystery of the movie is introduced late in the film and solved in the span of about 5 minutes. Most of the characters end up completely meaningless to the story.
- T-Points: The film received no bonus points.
Surprisingly bad given the Coen's track record. Biggest weakness by far is an overwhelming lack of a story. It's rare that I get very bored during a movie, but I did during this one.
Number of Watches: 1
