This film is mildly enjoyable, but certainly isn’t the amazing film that has been written about. it appears to me a very Jewish film with a fair bit of Jewish humour that I think passed over my head. There are some wonderful moments in the film but they are short lived, and the great characters that are so often prevalent in Coen brothers films just aren’t here. My favourite character is one of a schoolboy constantly calling everyone fucker and fuck this and fuck that. Sadly he is in the film nowhere near enough me.
The film centres around Larry Gopnik played brilliantly by Michael Stuhlbarg in what is his first major film role, and how his life is crumbling around him with his wife leaving him and his children and his brother all causing him hassle not to mention a South Korean student (another brilliant character I wanted to see more of) trying to bribe him.
All in all it is a nice film, but not the classic it has been touted as.
3 stars
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