Despite the fact that they co-wrote it, or at least the first draft, this movie still feels like Coen Brothers fan fiction. It takes the big pieces that usually fit within a Coen brothers’ movie, cast the right actors, balance an awkward tone, but the sum of the parts here just don’t add up to much. Part of the problem is that I’d seen the trailer too many times, and it really sells a completely different movie than the one you get, and perhaps without that baggage I may have been a bit more forgiving to the end product, but not by much.
excellent awkward 