Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Amy Adler Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is a barber in a small California town circa 1948. A quiet man who rarely speaks more than a few sentences on any topic, he has been married to Doris (s McDormand) for many years. Doris is more sociable and drags Ed to parties and dinners. She is a bookkeeper for Big Mike (James Gandolfini), a department store bigwig by marriage. Somehow, Ed gets news that Doris is cheating on him with Big Mike. Therefore, he concocts a scheme to blackmail the Big Man with a secret letter. Ed wants to invest money with an up and coming businessman and maybe escape his routine. However, Mike finds out and invites Ed to his office on another pretext. In the office, Big M tries to kill Ed who fights back with a handy letter opener. In a horrifying scene, Mike dies slowly in a gurgle of blood. Ed thinks his tracks are concealed. But, soon, DORIS is arrested for Mike's murder, when it is discovered she has embezzled money from the s. Will Ed let Doris take the rap for him? Into this deadly mix comes a piano playing Lolita (Scarlett Johanssen) who takes Ed's attention off the crisis in his life. In this labyrinth movie, there are more twists and turns ahead! Here is another winner from the national treasure of the Coen Brothers. Shot in black and white, it is a quietly noir movie of great power, in words and concepts. Thornton delivers a performance of praise while all of the others, including Gandolfini, do likewise. Naturally, the art direction and costumes bring the forties to life with gusto. So, don't say there isn't anything to do this evening when you can get your mitts on this flick!

jaapeelman Movie in black and white with a story with different twists which could be out of a Hitchcock-movie. But My God, what is this a slow movie and I had to do my best not to fall asleep. The acting is nice but the voice-over contributes to the slowness and sleep-inducing atmosphere. Also there are some unclear flash-backs... It is all about a barber who wants to participate in a dry-cleaning deal and although his first hunch is that it is a swindle he gets the necessary 10000usd by blackmailing his wife's boss. But it stays unclear why he does not trust his instinct.... What also is a mystery to me is that his fingerprints are on the knife which he used to kill his wife's boss accidentally but the cops do nothing with that and arrest his wife because she helped her boss to falsify the figures in the books. But the biggest problem with this movie is that it lacks pace and should have been in color as I really do not see that this black & white does anything good for the movie. If you can watch this movie for free and have nothing else to do that watch it, otherwise do not waste time and/or money on it.

elle_kittyca I am rather astonished by the rating on this movie, but I shouldn't be. I find too many movies given ratings that they do not deserve. This movie has several good things going for it, but in the end, it did not come together for me, and could not hold my interest. I have to it, in the beginning, I was pretty interested in Billy Bob Thorton's character, and I was interested to see what would happen. As the plot became more bizarre, however, simply stopped caring. Oddly enough, I liked Francis McDormand, who I really do not always enjoy. A few of the plot twists were unexpected. I liked some of the questions it raised, and what it was trying to do with Film Noir as a genre. But mostly, the characters didn't fit each other for me in a way that is needed to make the movie's universe coherent to me. Sometimes the quirks and turns of a film, while being unbelievable, still make sense within the film, and one can suspend disbelief. That was not the case for me in this film. I found it convoluted and contrived. The atmosphere, the characters, the pace... lost my interest.

Python Hyena The Man Who Wasn't There (2001): Dir: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen / Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, s McDormand, James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson: Film about accepting what happens yet drifting into a state of mind where we feel imperishable. Billy Bob Thornton plays a barber who suspects his wife of an affair with her boss. When a travelling salesman es through he devises a blackmail scheme that goes wrong resulting in his wife going to prison for a murder she did not commit. Directors Joel and Ethan Coen reflect upon film noir shooting it in black and white, and apply the same wit they stylized in Blood Simple and The Big Lebowski. Thornton is excellent as a man who lives life without expecting much change. His fate isn't exactly uplifting but his torn conscience and barber's eye for hair make for an interesting performance. s McDormand plays his wife caught in adultery and pays double the consequence. Tony Shalhoub is hilarious as a lawyer who doesn't believe Thornton when he confesses, and becomes too expensive to hire again. James Gandolfini is featured as McDormand's boss whose fate matches his consequence and his broken trust. Scarlett Johansson has a quiet role as a young piano player whom Thornton ires. It regards the mind as Thornton spaces himself from reality, responsibility and eventually consequence. Score: 8 / 10