Burn After Reading

With the Coen Brothers at the helm, and an amazing cast, this movie seemed like it would be a fantastic piece of film.  Yet, something went wrong.  Now sure, such high expectations may've caused me to assume it would be really really good... but even without all the weight that both the Coen Brothers and the cast hold, it just didn't do it for me.  The plot was all over the place, but didn't really seem to flow; and it wasn't one of those "the plot is meant to be crazy" sort of things, or a "digressive plot" movie: the plot was just weak or non-existent.  On top of that, there wern't any really memorable scenes, lines, or jokes.  Sure I laughed throughout the film, but that is to be expected from any comedy; yet my laughing wasn't a side spliting, red faced, tears in the eyes laughter: it was a chuckling or "that was funny" sort of laughter.  Perhaps the confusing ramblings of this unstructured review will somehow represent the confused ramblings of this "dark comedy."  And don't think that if you read this a few times you will really "figure it out".  The same can be said of this movie (though I only saw it once... that was enough for me).  If you really had high hopes for this movie, tone them down a bit before you see this film.  Or, you could stay home and re-watch The Big Lebowski.  Of course, that's just my opinion... and I'm not Dennis Miller.