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The Ladykillers
Writer: Ethan & Joel Coen
Director: Ethan & Joel Coen
Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans,
Rated: 15
Trailer: Quicktime, Various Sizes
Tagline: The greatest criminal minds of all time have finally met their match.
The Ladykillers stars Tom Hanks as Professor G.H. Dorr, a dastardly individual who hatches a plan to use a church going, gospel singing old womanÂ’s house as a lair from which to rob millions of dollars from a Mississippi riverboat casino. ItÂ’s based on the original The Lady Killers, which was made in 1955 and directed by Alexander Mackendrick.
I have to sayÂ… I expected quite a lot from this film. Tom Hanks is a good actor who generally does a good job in whatever he does, and the Coen Brothers have made some fantastic films (Fargo, The Man Who WasnÂ’t There). So for this remake of a classic, I did expect good things.
And I was disappointed. ItÂ’s not that The Ladykillers is a bad film, itÂ’s just thatÂ’s itÂ’s not an exceptionally good one, and it doesnÂ’t live up to what it could have been.
For his part, Hanks is very good. He obviously relishes in the chance to play a weird bad guy, wrapping his tongue around the southern accent. The rest of the cast is alright, they hold their own. The problem is, a) Hank’s character is so cooky sometimes, and spends so much time getting his lines out that he starts to annoy you. And not in a ‘that character is a bad man’ way, in a ‘that characters a-bad words-man’.
It also suffers because a lot of the jokes are quite low-brow. Now, this may be a little bit of filmic snobbery coming out of me, but I think the Coens have proved they are above fart and turd jokes. The film had loads of them though. Fart jokes are fine in their place, but they stuck out like a sore thumb in this film, and it hurt it.
So yeahÂ… a disappointment. I recommend a lot of films, but I donÂ’t think IÂ’m going to recommend this one. ItÂ’s good, but if I wouldnÂ’t go see it now I have seen it. Or something like that.
[Watch the language please.]
(Edited by Byron 15/04/2004 22:04)
Director: Ethan & Joel Coen
Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans,
Rated: 15
Trailer: Quicktime, Various Sizes
Tagline: The greatest criminal minds of all time have finally met their match.
The Ladykillers stars Tom Hanks as Professor G.H. Dorr, a dastardly individual who hatches a plan to use a church going, gospel singing old womanÂ’s house as a lair from which to rob millions of dollars from a Mississippi riverboat casino. ItÂ’s based on the original The Lady Killers, which was made in 1955 and directed by Alexander Mackendrick.
I have to sayÂ… I expected quite a lot from this film. Tom Hanks is a good actor who generally does a good job in whatever he does, and the Coen Brothers have made some fantastic films (Fargo, The Man Who WasnÂ’t There). So for this remake of a classic, I did expect good things.
And I was disappointed. ItÂ’s not that The Ladykillers is a bad film, itÂ’s just thatÂ’s itÂ’s not an exceptionally good one, and it doesnÂ’t live up to what it could have been.
For his part, Hanks is very good. He obviously relishes in the chance to play a weird bad guy, wrapping his tongue around the southern accent. The rest of the cast is alright, they hold their own. The problem is, a) Hank’s character is so cooky sometimes, and spends so much time getting his lines out that he starts to annoy you. And not in a ‘that character is a bad man’ way, in a ‘that characters a-bad words-man’.
It also suffers because a lot of the jokes are quite low-brow. Now, this may be a little bit of filmic snobbery coming out of me, but I think the Coens have proved they are above fart and turd jokes. The film had loads of them though. Fart jokes are fine in their place, but they stuck out like a sore thumb in this film, and it hurt it.
So yeahÂ… a disappointment. I recommend a lot of films, but I donÂ’t think IÂ’m going to recommend this one. ItÂ’s good, but if I wouldnÂ’t go see it now I have seen it. Or something like that.
[Watch the language please.]
(Edited by Byron 15/04/2004 22:04)
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