Typical situation. Some Hollywood insiders put out some piece of trash that thumbs its nose at anything with any sense and all of the "smart" people rave about it. In the vision of the producers, all of the decent people are stupid and the criminals are the interesting ones. Meanwhile, two hours are wasted with lousy dialog, poor acting and pacing that makes the ice age look like a party. Of course, it won some Oscars! How else would the intelligentsia living in the brain-addled, sunshine paradise of Southern California prove that the rest of us don't know anything. "Oh yeah! You betcha, yeah!" Steve Buscemi and the Cohen Bros. should not produce any other expectations. They are lousy, but have exceeded their typical capacity for producing junk with this one.