Anyone that has seen a Cohen brothers film would be very cautious about watching this film and expecting anything from it. Mostly their films tend to be quite weird and often not particularly great. They are always going to be those film makers that constantly make bad films but attract stars because they are so weird, terrible and playing for laughs. Cohen brothers film tend to be a little pointless- almost like the came up with a basic plot and then didn't bother to adapt it, instead they just decided to spend money on making a movie out of it.
The first 40 minutes is very boring. This film is only an hour and forty minutes long so you would expect for the film to have heated up by this point or to be running along smoothly. The most action you have had was the break in and murder of a woman as she fell down the stairs covered in a sheet. That scene was no more than five minutes long. Five minutes of real action in the first forty minutes is not saying good things about the film. Fargo is not a film that keeps rolling smoothly by itself. At no point are you pleasantly enjoying it and don't notice where that hour and forty minutes went. If you are tired or not concentrating properly then you should wait to watch this film at a time when you can concentrate properly because you need to be concentrating to stop yourself from being bored and actually pay real, solid attention to what is going on because it is easy to not hear properly the lines or not watch the film properly. After all, it is not as if this film is holding you on the edge of your seat in anticipation.
This is just another classic Cohen film. On a par with 'Burn After Reading' (but with less action than that film) and 'O Brother Where Art Thou'.
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