human2 Review of Hail, Caesar!

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

For the astute viewer, a masterpiece and the best film of the year

[10/10 · 25 December 2016]

Personally I never always really knew what to do with the Coen Brother's movies, like "A Serious Man" for example... The directing is always flawless but the story is colorful to say the least... I decided to buy this DVD because of my current passion for Julius Caesar, the Coen Brothers doing a movie with this subject I had a hunch it would be great... The movie is like two days in the life of fictional character Eddie Mannix, who is boorish and kind of a "problem solver" for the studio... The movie is a little bit like "Pulp Fiction" in the structure, it's a lot of small independent stories and the link between all of them is the character of Eddie Mannix... For one thing the script is so clever if you're not really a subtle kind of person you're going to miss much of the dialog, it try to be cartoonesque but serious at the same time... For example one of the first scene of the movie is a dialog between manner-less Eddie Mannix and four religious authority figures regarding what is Jesus and is he God, and later we see the character of George Clooney being abducted by a group of Communists, all in the same movie... The directing is masterful, the colours, the sets, the choice of actors and the acting are all flawless and made with artistic sense... Overall it's easily a 10 out of 10, bad reviews come obviously from users who didn't understand anything to the very fast-paced dialog and story, and don't have any sense of humor, which is required to appreciate this picture...