Writer: Joel & Ethan Cohen
Director: Joel Cohen
Actors: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh
This is another tale of warped justice following yet another story of adultery and murder.
The story follows a woman named Abby who is having an affair with one of her husbands barmen, Ray. Marty, the husband, hires a private detective to catch the two lovers together in a motel.
The private investigator, Visser, is later hired to murder the pair in return for $10,000. Visser double crosses Marty and shoots him with a gun belonging to Abby. Ray, returning to the office to collect his outstanding pay arrives to see the dead body of Marty and assumes that Abby has murdered her husband. Ray cleans up the mess and takes the body in an attempt to hide it. It turns out that Marty is not dead, and Ray buries the body alive.
Marty has Abbys gun and tries to shoot Ray, but he is weak and the first two fires have no bullets. Ray confiscates the Gun.
Visser, realises that one of the images is missing and so is his cigarette lighter, he presumes that Ray and Abby know about the murder and goes to kill them. He shoots Ray, with a sniper rifle. Abby grabs her gun back off Ray and hides in the next door apartment.
At the end Visser is about to walk into the door, but Abby shoots him. "I'm not afraid of you Marty." she says. Visser laughs.
I didn't enjoy this film as I felt it very linear. The movies received good reviews but this is something I could not connect with. I didn't connect with the characters and almost didn't care what happened to them in this ridiculously messed up plot, where murder appears the simplest solution.
