Disclaimer: I'm writing this as a McDonagh fan, and yes, I'm mad the Academy chose THIS over 3BoEM.

While I can't deny the movie's stylish looks and outstanding cinematography, it fails on every other front with its one-dimensional characters, implausible storyline and heavily-pushed "white males are evil" agenda. Aside from that, we learn that the Amazon is salty all of a sudden; "Ze Russians" speak gibberish which both me and my wife, being native speakers, needed some subtitles for; and laundry vans can breach security of top-secret government facilities during the Cold War.

Did you really have to regurgitate (also known as "steal") an old Soviet movie so you get one more stage to push the omnipresent liberal agenda?

How this one got an Oscar is beyond me.