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| Year:
2004 |
Rated:
R |
Runtime:
104 min. |
| Starring:
Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon
Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst, Diane Delano, George Wallace |
| Directed
by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Written
by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
| Based
on the Film by:
William Rose |
| Music
by: Carter Burwell |
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Studio: Touchstone Pictures, Jacobson Company, Buena Vista Pictures |
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Coen Brothers, Back in the Saddle
Again: The
Ladykillers
by Christian De Matteo
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It took me a good year to see
Intolerable Cruelty because it just didn't seem like a
Coen Brothers flick to me. It certainly was no
Miller's Crossing, absolutely wasn't a Blood Simple,
no where near a Big Lebowski and no kind of
Fargo. Somehow, Ladykillers looked like it
belonged.
And it sure do.
Funny it is, but more than that, it's cruel,
wicked, evil Edgar Allen Poe meets O.Henry funny.
The story of a group of robbers who, headed by the
intellectually superior, literary minded Professor, as
depicted in mustache twirling elegance by Tom Hanks,
who scam an old woman for her house and soon find how
complicated good crime can be, the movie glides
perfectly from scene to scene with perfect malevolent
aplomb. From Hanks collegiate, intellectual, 25
cent using con man to Marlon Wayans profane, Thug
Life, slacker homie, every single character who
appears on film performs a perfect function as comedic
apparatus so that not a single line isn't, as the wise
old Splinter would say, a funny.
Unfortunately I am at somewhat of a disadvantage
for comparison, not having seen the original Sir Alec
"I'm Obie Wan Kenobie, Bitch" Guinness
comedy. Regardless, this is pure and utter Coen
Brothers at their most cruel, evil and just damn
hilarious. Starting with the little old lady
repeatedly referencing, A Tribe Called Quest's "I
Left My Wallet in El Segundo", to anything
involving Pickles, the old lady's cat (a Poe reference
as well), Ladykiller's sick pleasure with classic Coen
dialogue right down to "You took your bitch, to
the muthaf*ckin' Wafflehouse" repeated over and
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I can't recommend this highly enough. The
boys are indeed back in town. Go see them. |
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