Hail, Caesar!

Caught this at a screening the other night, and wasn't very impressed. The laughs are infrequent, and it's downright boring in stretches.

Actually it is an homage to the studio system days of the 1950's when sailors danced, Esther Williams did water ballets and cowboys sang.A big cast doesn't break a sweat as they stroll about this quirky offering.

Hail, Caesar! is one of those big, luscious, gorgeous odes to the Golden Age of Hollywood - a certain kind of Hollywood, at any rate - and it's a work that is both great and minor at the same time.

For those of us who enjoy movies made in the Golden age of the silver screen and are fans, you'll love Hail, Caesar! even more as it is the perfect satire to that era, pin pointing certain issue of the time, like Alden Ehrenreich playing Hobie Doyle, an actor so perfectly type cast as a Cowboy that he can't do anything else.

Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is a fixer working in Hollywood for Capitol Pictures. Set in the 50s, 'Hail Caesar!

HAIL, CAESAR! is one of the worst motion pictures that I have seen in a long, long time.

Hail Caesar is, granted, not the Coen Brothers strongest film but it is a great love song from the Coen Brothers to an industry that they live in. Its truly a film made by a couple of film nerds to appeal to other film nerds.

"Hail, Caesar", the Coen Brothers latest film, is one of the funniest movies I seen that also left me completely confused. My confusion was cleared up after digesting it for a day, but what a whirlwind of a film.

The Coen Brothers are certainly some of the greatest living directors working today. Their films have become very famous for paying homage to older films while at the same time managing to change and combine genres giving their reputation as genre-benders.