Brick
This film felt like a Cohen brothers flick. When the car drives by the protagonist, I kept waiting for old guy to point at the character and give him a thumbs up a la Blood Simple. And the movie was straight up similar in plot to The Big Lebowski. In fact, I think that The Big Lebowski did a better detective story than Brick.
Overall, this film was trying to hard. You can see where it was being clever. The dialogue was hard to understand, not for the lingo, but because the mix was muddled. I never did get what he said in the end.
3 of 5 stars
This film felt like a Cohen brothers flick. When the car drives by the protagonist, I kept waiting for old guy to point at the character and give him a thumbs up a la Blood Simple. And the movie was straight up similar in plot to The Big Lebowski. In fact, I think that The Big Lebowski did a better detective story than Brick.
Overall, this film was trying to hard. You can see where it was being clever. The dialogue was hard to understand, not for the lingo, but because the mix was muddled. I never did get what he said in the end.
3 of 5 stars