The Coens follow up to No Country For Old Men is a much more lightweight film. Ostensibly a comedy it once again sees the brothers fusing desperate genre conventions as the political spy thriller becomes a farce then the darkest of comedies.
George Clooney once again essays one of life's deluded as the stay at home husband with a taste for the ladies and a eye raising invention in the basement. Around him John Malkovich is in angry mode, the ever excellent Frances McDormand is a women driven to better herself (with "surgeries"), Tilda Swinton is the ice queen (although not that one) and Brad Pitt has a whale of a time playing a total goof ball of a fitness instructor.
Altogether it's a lightweight follow up to No Country For Old Men and it will leave as many puzzled as it does amused and the denouncement is certainly one to frustrate a lot of people. Very much a case of the Coens at play.
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