O Brother, Where Art Thou? (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #2 extract: O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)

Enjoyable, amusing, immersive, O Brother, Where Art Though? is an easy watch, but certainly not the best Coen bros film. It taps into the ambiguous, wacky and arbitrary tone captured in Fargo, No Country For Old Men, Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski, but completely lacks a relative sense of verisimilitude. And in such, whilst you don't watch The Big Lebowski like you do Saving Private Ryan or The Hurt Locker, it retains a sense of believability; all the ridiculous situations The Dude finds himself in make sense considering who his is. And this is the magic of a good Coen bros; they're ludicrous but they still somehow rope you along with them. 

O Brother, Where Art Though? lacks this above everything else and so is intermittently pretty weak.