This is not only one of the worst movies of the year, it's one of the worst movies ever made. It's like watching a train go off the track and being forced to sit there for 90 minutes and watch it crash. At the crowded screening I attended the movie was watched in stony silence, every joke crashing to the ground and dying. I love many of the Coen Brothers movies and to see one that goes so terribly wrong is a painful experience. Within 5 minutes George Clooney tried to deliver a line of dialogue and the movie died. If I had known the premise -- Everyone in the movie is a half-wit, except George Clooney, who dispenses pearls of wisdom, I would have known better than to even attend a film with so ridiculous a plot. In other words, if the film had broken at any point and they sent us home, I don't think anyone would have complained.
Review of O Brother, Where Art Thou?
