- Story: Very involved, full of details, funny, and interesting.
- Style: Caricatural. A mix of what the public was perceiving at the time and what we think of that time now, all exaggerated and slightly goofy.
- Pacing: Never boring, it keeps rolling and rolling and rolling, throwing at us stars after stars.
- Ending: Nicely done.
- Dialogs: Funny, even hilarious at times. Mostly second and third degree.
- Characters: Well built, with a nice range, nothing archetypal, but a lot of surprises and easy to understand.
- Acting: Great.
- Known actors: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, David Krumholtz, Clancy Brown, Natasha Bassett, Wayne Knight, Jeff Lewis and Christopher Lambert.
- Visuals: Very nice.
- Special Effects: Somewhat substandard, but there's very few of them, so you can easily ignore this.
- Synopsis & information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475290/
- Entertainment value: Good.
- Who is it for? Difficult to say. Those looking for a goofy yet intellectual kind of comedy with second degree funny dialogs. The setting and the humor is not for everyone.
Solid work by writers/directors Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.
