POSITIVES:
1) The performances are as good as they can be; nobody is bad in the movie they just aren't really given anything good to work with 2) I was fairly invested in Jamie and Marian's relationship. I think they're two leads that carry the film as well as they can and had a good chemistry together 3) The film is mercifully short at only 83 minutes, meaning it wasn't painful to sit through despite lacking in quality
NEGATIVES:
1) The film is painfully unfunny. It's trying so hard to be funny but the humour just didn't work at all for me 2) I understand that Ethan Coen has built up a lot of credibility with his previous films and so clearly has a lot of famous friends, but the constant churn of famous faces doing tiny roles in this film was just distracting. Pedro Pascal and Matt Damon are both huge stars and literally show up for one scene each, so what's the point?
3) You actually have the basic outline of a good plot here. Two friends accidentally get given a car that wasn't meant for them which means they inadvertently stumble into a criminal conspiracy involving a famous politician. The problem is that rather than flesh out this concept and make it interesting, the film spends most of its time just being needlessly rude and outrageous, making it come across more like a desperate cry for attention than as any kind of serious filmmaking.
1) The performances are as good as they can be; nobody is bad in the movie they just aren't really given anything good to work with 2) I was fairly invested in Jamie and Marian's relationship. I think they're two leads that carry the film as well as they can and had a good chemistry together 3) The film is mercifully short at only 83 minutes, meaning it wasn't painful to sit through despite lacking in quality
NEGATIVES:
1) The film is painfully unfunny. It's trying so hard to be funny but the humour just didn't work at all for me 2) I understand that Ethan Coen has built up a lot of credibility with his previous films and so clearly has a lot of famous friends, but the constant churn of famous faces doing tiny roles in this film was just distracting. Pedro Pascal and Matt Damon are both huge stars and literally show up for one scene each, so what's the point?
3) You actually have the basic outline of a good plot here. Two friends accidentally get given a car that wasn't meant for them which means they inadvertently stumble into a criminal conspiracy involving a famous politician. The problem is that rather than flesh out this concept and make it interesting, the film spends most of its time just being needlessly rude and outrageous, making it come across more like a desperate cry for attention than as any kind of serious filmmaking.