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Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst, George Wallace, Diane Delano, Greg Grunberg, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Bruce Campbell, Blake Clark (plus)Résumés(1)
Underneath Professor G.H. Dorr's (Hanks) silver-tongued southern gentleman persona is a devious criminal who has assembled a motley gang of thieves to commit the heist of the century by tunneling through his churchgoing landlady's root cellar to a casino's vault of riches. But these cons are far from pros. As their scheme begins blowing up in their faces, their landlady smells a rat. And when she threatens to call the police, they figure they'll just bump her off. After all, how hard can that be? (texte officiel du distributeur)
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Au début, The Ladykillers semble assez prometteur, mais l'énergie des Frères Coen diminue progressivement. Les blagues pointillées ne sont pas aussi percutantes qu'ils le voudraient et, étant donné qu'elles reposent pratiquement sur tous les rebondissements clés, y compris celui de la fin, le film sautille sur un pied jusqu'aux crédits finaux. Seul Tom Hanks et la vieille dame méritent des éloges supplémentaires. Elle était également excellente.
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Joel and Ethan Coen let Tom Hanks and Co. scream, run around, act weird, and perform various antics for so long that the viewer doesn't care anymore whether their plan succeeds in the end. Moreover, the ending is so desperately predictable that not even a number of malicious screenwriting ideas can help it. Placing this particular film between Intolerable Cruelty and No Country for Old Men in their filmography is literally a sin.
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An excellent comedy from the masters’ workshop. A small, cute statuette that will amuse, please and caress the soul. It is not worth building this statue next to large statues such as The Big Lebowski or Fargo. The Coen brothers simply experimented with a lighter genre and created a simple comedy full of great caricatures. You say that caricatures have no insides? Well, their magic is on the surface. In Professor Dorr's perfectly trimmed beard, Mrs. Munson's cheerful face, in the general's icy calm mask... Such are the true poetics of this film. Black as morning coffee, jolly as a gospel choir, linguistically perfectly tuned, and full of excellent caricatures. It is not worth looking for depth in the film, because it is a brisk gag, a funny situation and, as always, ironic directing by Joel and Ethan... What more could you want than pure entertainment with the hallmark of independent cinematography and the glory of a Hollywood star? What more could you want than wonderful actors led by the excellent Hanks and the natural Irma P. Hall? I was divinely entertained and I even forgot that the Coen brothers have made better movies.
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The plot of the weak script (I don't care that it's a remake), drowned in poor directorial execution, is not yet a clear example of the Coen brothers' softening; rather, it is a prime example of them confidently "missing the mark." Everything that happened in the film could be told in a few minutes, but fortunately, these two gentlemen tell it differently, and thus the sequence of darkly humorous situations, mixed with an abundance of absurdities as if taken from Murphy's Law, should theoretically not keep you waiting for long. However, the only genuine joke that could be labeled as typically "Coen-esque" seems to be thrown into the film almost casually and has nothing to do with the plot – I'm referring to the filming of a commercial for dog food. In a plot that resembles Ocean's Eleven too much, we also encounter characters who lack any sort of energy, and we don't get any good jokes from them, making the film unwatchable, prolonged, and incredibly boring. When it ended (just as I expected) I somehow couldn't help my inner disillusionment and the question crept in subtly: "Have the Coen brothers really gone soft?"
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I like Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; they're among my favorite directors, but this one didn't quite work for them, and in my view, it resulted in their weakest film to date. It's noticeably weaker than the original version. Their characters this time are just superficial figures, and not even Tom Hanks in the lead role can save it. The biggest weakness is the screenplay overall; the quality of the dialogue is unsatisfactory, and the comedy simply lacks humor. Overall impression: 45%.
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