Burn After Reading

I'll start by saying this: If it wasn't for the all-star cast I think I would have hated this movie. Nevertheless, it did have an all-star cast and I did like it.

Burn After Reading is your typical Cohen Brothers movie. Wacky, funny characters; an outrageous plot; unexpected violence and a tall-tale of how quickly simple events lead to disastrous consequences.

Bravo to the entire cast who gave phenomenal performances. I believe it was the material they were working with that was the movies downfall. The plot, at times, seemed hard to follow. In particular, the one scene in the movie that was supposed to bring all the prior events to a magnificent crescendo left me leaning over to Chad and whispering, "Did blank just happen or what is blank." Even after the movie concluded we still couldn't quite figure out what happened in that one pivotal scene.

The movie never bored me (thanks again to the cast), but it never captured my attention and imagination the way Fargo or No Country For Old Men did. Also, this falls blame to the script, but the characters were underdeveloped; again the layers that made everyone mesmerized by the characters in Fargo and No Country For Old Men simply weren't there.

Overall, entertaining and worth a watch, but not worth any gold statuettes come award season.

Missy Cinema Score: B-