Thursday, October 09, 2003

Intolerable Cruelty

The Coen Brothers (Joel and Ethan) are in my opinion, the best pair of filmmakers Hollywood has ever seen.

I mean, have you seen The Man Who Wasn't There, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo and The Big Lebowski? Those are deliciously dark humorous shows. Unfortunately haven't managed to see the rest of their films but did manage to catch their latest, Intolerable Cruelty, for free of course.

It's a decent movie. I would rate it much higher if it was a movie by someone else actually, if that makes any sense.

But coming from the Coen brothers, i kinda expected more.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great show. It was funny, wickedly funny and you get to see George Clooney play a bit of manic yet still charming divorce attorney. Man is he good!! I'm not a Catherine Zeta-Jones fan but she did a nice turn as the golddigger type.

Geoffrey Rush was a bit wasted in the role, he was only in the first 10-15 min and then disappeared until the end. And so was Billy Bob Thornton, in another supporting role (watch him in The Man Who Wasn't There - brilliant!!)

Might make more comments later but i oughta get back to work.

My rating- 7 out of 10. or a B-. whichever u prefer - numbers, letters, symbols..

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