Blood Simple (1984)

Genre: Crime/Thriller

Time:1h 40mins

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Quick Summary: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

This is incredibly slow. The scenery is bleak and unattractive. Honestly, not much happens either that is actually interesting. Nobody is interesting either, and they're also so incredibly slow as well. This film is a massive drag.

There was never any drama or suspense for me because I didn't care about any of the characters. The movie is incredibly slow and there is this pretentious music playing that is supposed to suggest drama and suspense. But there isn't any because the characters are so slow, uninteresting and unappealing.

I don't really know what cinematography people are talking about with this film because it was all pretty plain. Same with the editing, it was pretty poor.

I don't think any of the characters actually had a brain because everything they did was so stupid and didn't make any sense at all. Everything they did was so far-fetched and absolutely ridiculous when you think about it. For example when one person is shot, and has been bleeding out for a couple of hours, we're supposed to believe that he's not actually dead after seeing gallons of blood come out of him AND him being dragged into a car.

It tries to be a complex and twisted movie but ultimately fails massively at this. At best it's predictable. I was so bored watching this film I actually fell asleep.

1/10

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