The Coen brothers are of those film-makers that do their own thing. They have their trademark, so not knowing a film, I think you could guess they made it.
Through their career, they have visited many genres and each time have marked it with their own sceal.
This time they are tackling the spy movie genre.
It's a movie that holds everything that you would expect from one of their films. Great script, witty dialogs, amazing cast (all well at their place and in great form, Brad Pitt is a stand out, but it shouldn't hide the quality of the others) and filmed with great skill.
It's a "spy comedy", but more on the dark side of their comedy.
I would put it somewhere between Fargo & The Big Lebowski. The characters are completely crazy and it makes a fairly simple story escalate to deadly proportions...
But all with laughs, as everything is so desperately absurd...
So it's great fun, a bit lighter than No Country For Old Men, sure, which could make it seem like a "minor" film in their filmography. Yet what's this thing about sort of dissing "funny" movies? Not serious, so not good enough?
Nonsense, this is a truly great Coen brew.
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