Hail Caesar is the new film from the Coen Brothers and concerns the star of Capitol Pictures new Roman epic "Hail Caesar" Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) who whilst filming for the movie is kidnapped from the set and a ransom is set for $100,000 which then sets the studios fixer Mr Mannix (Josh Brolin) onto the case.
Hail Caesar is unfortunately not the Coen Brothers finest hour in fact it's a bit of a mess but before I delve into that in more detail I want to talk about what I did like about this movie and the first of those is Brolin himself, he is excellent in this role and his Gumshoe esque character and firm jaw line has him fit the period really really well in fact whilst I was watching him I was reminded of my desire to see him headline a new Dick Tracy movie as he would've done a great job as that character and he has the firm jaw line the character had in the comic strip as compared to Warren Beatty's soft jaw from his 1990 film.
The other was a particular cameo which I won't spoil here but it did make me go "OMG is that who I think it is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" and yes I literally did squeal out loud in the cinema as a result.
But despite those like I mentioned this script is a mess and the main reason for that is the central story regarding Clooney's character just really comes across as an excuse to have a boatload of cameos and references to Old Hollywood pictures and some of those are well done but whilst watching them I just felt like I was being distracted and wanted to get back to the main story plus some of the humour really doesn't work here and given the Coens have gone silly in the past with such films as Raising Arizona and the Big Lebowski here the silliness stretches credibility at times especially one part towards the end of the film.
And so that was Hail Caesar a film that is unfortunately not very good, if you want a good Hollywood satire rent the Player instead, 1.5 out of 5.
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