Brandon — Sun, 7/5/09 4:40pm

I put in a second viewing last night, and I still agree wholeheartedly with the three-star rating. It's good, but far from great (and I don't see the potential for a Lebowski-esque reversal of that sentiment in the future).

They seem to have three fully-realized characters played by actors who are in synch with the Coens vibe in Malkovich, Clooney, and Pitt. And the scenes with David Rasche and J.K. Simmons are great. But the McDormand, Jenkins and Swinton characters feel disjointed and underwritten (or perhaps, as you say, miscast), not quite a part of the same movie, and that seems to prevent it from ever really taking off.