When this movie came out, it received cold to lukewarm reviews. Most of the critics complained that it wasn't funny. Odd, the audience in the theater I saw it in were howling. If you need your characters "likeable" don't rent it. It's funny and mean-spirited and snotty and a little sad and a little violent -- a Coen brothers comedy.
December 23, 2008
Burn After Reading
When this movie came out, it received cold to lukewarm reviews. Most of the critics complained that it wasn't funny. Odd, the audience in the theater I saw it in were howling. If you need your characters "likeable" don't rent it. It's funny and mean-spirited and snotty and a little sad and a little violent -- a Coen brothers comedy.
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We really enjoyed it, but thought it was tame for Coen Brothers. Brad Pitt was great in it.
I don't know how I feel about the tame label. The violence was tamer than other Coen brothers comedies. The sensibility was as dark as any of their movies -- and maybe more nihilistic than most of them.
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