Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The room is bad, but at least I can laugh at that. This movie has some great actors which got me to want to see it, but man it does not deserve the 6/10 that it has I think. I actually rate this lower than the room because no parts I could laugh at and it was so slow and nothing saved it for me. I felt like I was in the movie theater watching this for 3 hours instead of almost 2. I remember very little from this movie because I tried to block it from my memory so hard.

I am tempted to give it a higher score simply because of how I love the way the Coen Brothers craft their movies. This one has that classic touch of theirs: the scenes are meticulously staged, the dialogue is precise, the humor and commentary is perfectly delivered, each shot feels like an illustration, and the casting is on point.Despite all of this, and many memorable moments throughout the film, it just seems like it was aiming to be so much more. Maybe that part was just me. I did, however, thoroughly enjoy its ending for it drove home a message that I think is quite important to live by.

Hail, Caesar!The comic sequences are smart and practical i.e. installed within the inherent pragmatic nature written for the characters and their relation is what helps one survive this more than 100 minutes of journey. Coen brothers is of course no short on execution but the script is the real culprit in here that never had enough crisp to make it in the first place. The feature endorses itself on performance level and star power that matches both the things perfectly delivered thoroughly by Josh Brolin and George Clooney and other cameos. Hail, Caesar! has everything in the right place but still seems missing something between the sketchy comic sequences that fails to bind it all and create the anticipated impact.

A rambling shaggy dog story set in Hollywood of the 1950's ... a movie star (George Clooney) is kidnapped off the set of a Biblical epic he's starring in. There are a couple of distinct but related subplots, and all of it ties back to studio exec Josh Brolin trying to put out all the fires while considering a better job offer from Lockheed. Every once in a while, the Coens make a film simply because it amuses them and allows them to exercise their love of classic Hollywood. This is one of those. They stage multiple scenes from films being made by this studio ... musicals, westerns, comedies, epics ... and each is a meticulously recreated pastiche of a 50's film. If you're on their wavelength, it's immensely rewarding. If you're not, it's a bunch of stars gathered together for a plot that ultimately goes almost nowhere. I'm in the first camp ... I loved this.