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Movie Reviews of Fargo (Special Edition)
Movie Review: An Excellent, Funny, Disturbing Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I put Fargo up there with the best. The Coens are young and productive, so it will be interesting to see what they come up with in their careers. They'll have a hard time topping Fargo. Some things I like about it...
--The way they mix violence with humor (not just gross-out easy laughs). Buscemi's reaction to Stormare shooting the cop is funny in a twisted way... but Stormare going after the young couple immediately after is scary and unsettling. This one scene sets the tone of the whole movie.
--Buscemi's reaction to Presnell's refusal to deal is funny...but Buscemi's reaction to being shot is also funny, and is also scary.
--Marge Gunderson feeling nauseated when she sees the mess at the crime scene...and it's just morning sickness. This brief moment really establishes her character.
--Marge Gunderson's relationship with her husband is really endearing, and is a thread that runs throughout the movie. It gives the movie a lot more humanity that most Coen films have.
--And Bill Macy; his character is so earnest and so out of his depth.
Fargo is a movie that stands up to repeated watching.
The DVD transfer is first-rate
Movie Review: Classic Coens Film
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a film to savour from the Coen brothers. A strange mixture of thriller and black comedy that will keep to guessing all the way.
The cast are first-rate, and to pick favourites is very difficult, however William H Macy and Frances McDormand stand-out for me. Macy is Jerry, a car salesman who is drowning in debt. Desperation leaks out of his character and his portrayal of an essentially decent man driven to desperate measures is utterly brilliant. McDormand is Marge, a pregnant small town Policewoman who ends up investigating the ensuing carnage when Jerry's plan goes wrong. The rest of the cast are nearly as good as these two.
There is no fat on this film, it is only 94 minutes long, and an Oscar winning (1996) script is the main reason for this. The local dialects and mannerisms from Minnesota are all captured, and clearly a lot of time and effort went into this.
Rightly this film is rated very highly (106 in top 250 film on the IMDB) and its well worth getting the DVD as it holds up to repeated viewings and the extras are pretty good.
Movie Review: A study of decency and venality
Summary: 5 Stars
A pair of dim-witted crooks (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) and a pathetic car salesman (William H. Macy) imploding with frustration conspire to ransom the salesman's wife (Kristin Rudrud) to her rich father (Harve Presnell). Enter Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand), the pregnant chief of police of Fargo, Minnesota. She's a good police officer with a good heart, and one of the pleasures of this excellent film is watching the contrast between her routine, ordinary life and the pathetic, scrambling desperation of the vicious criminals of this story. The steps in her chain of reasoning that leads to a surreal confrontation are buried in the mundane details of her daily life, making it seem as if the discovery of an important clue is no more important than what Marge chooses for lunch at the buffet. No film has done a better job at revealing the nobility of living a seemingly routine, mundane life in which one just plugs away, harming no one and maybe even doing a little good. Fine work from the Coen brothers and the entire cast./Movie Review: Top Ten
Summary: 5 Stars
Fargo is definetly on my top ten movie list which includes Memento, Pulp Fiction, and The Usual Suspects. If you liked these movies don't even bother reading more reviews cause you'll like this movie. If you haven't seen them (which you should) see Fargo anyway.Fargo is definately a unique movie. It beautifully blends drama, humor, action, and thrills into 1 1/2 hours of pure brilliance. It is supperbly acted with Steve Buscemi, Frances McDormand (who's absolutely hilarious), and William H. Macy. It is definately a shame that Buscemi has fallen off the radar of good movies because he really carried this movie as he did with resevoir dogs.
I've always said a good movie is one that has you still thinking about it weeks later. (as long as those thoughts are not how bad you wasted your time in watching it.) This movie made me think and a week later as a write this review i'm still thinking.
you might as well just buy this movie because you'll be wasting three bucks to rent it.
Movie Review: Who's the oriental guy?
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with the positive reviews here 100%, but apparently this must be your type of movie for this to apply - some do not get it. I notice a sub-plot that is intriguing - seemingly completely unnecessary (I'm waiting to hear the interviews) - and would like opinions from others. There's a scene where the sheriff (McDormand) meets what seems like an old friend/acquaintance from school, an oriental-looking guy - sorry can't remember his name. She meets him at the Radison I believe for lunch. Its a totally weird encounter as he begins seeming normal and progresses to trying to put the make on this obviously pregnant woman, which she skillfully rebuffs, and then turns tragic. Later in the movie McDormand talks on the phone with another school chum who fills her in that nothing the oriental guy disclosed to her as highly personal tragic info - none of it was true. He was totally deranged mentally. Like I said, its a captivating subplot, but what the Hell is it about?