Crimewave
Ernest Tread called the exterminators. He had a rat in his place of business - his partner. Unfortunately, the exterminators dispatched the wrong rat. Written by the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan.
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Fans of Blood Simple should consider it worth the investment of time. - Superdave
A nebbishy guy is on the run from the cops after a couple of hitmen frame him for their wild crime spree in this dark and quite funny action comedy from early in the careers of the Coen Brothers. I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. The plotting is sharp and inventive, and the action is fast moving, with Brion James and Paul L. Smith stealing the movie as the hitmen. The two young lovers who get inadvertently caught up in the intrigue are more off-the-rack as characters and thus less interesting than their antagonists, but then again, the villains always get the best material. Everything in the movie has a slightly amber hue. I'm guessing that this was meant to suggest the yellowing pages of an old pulp novel. Certainly, that is what is being both constructed here and spoofed at the same time: Pepsodent clean good guy / good girl couple in over their heads, nasty villains driving the unrelenting action, sudden violence erupting out of nowhere. It's all pretty entertaining.
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Fans of Blood Simple should consider it worth the investment of time. - Superdave
A nebbishy guy is on the run from the cops after a couple of hitmen frame him for their wild crime spree in this dark and quite funny action comedy from early in the careers of the Coen Brothers. I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. The plotting is sharp ...