Fargo (1996) : Brief Review -

Giving a birth to rare genre "A Comical homicide thriller". Homicide and crime thrillers haven't been more crunchy and lighter than this. Fargo is that rare genre making film which stays in mind for using all cinematic methods far away from Mainstream cinema. A rich plot having so many characters included, having so many incidents included yet meeting each other at the end. A crook hires two professional criminals to kidnap his own wife to get handsome amount from his Father-in-law who despises him. A planning goes wrong by human errors and everything is messed and then how a pregnant and clever cop investigates it is all about interesting story of Fargo. The runtime is short about 98 minutes with no boring moments but certainly has plenty of useless scenes for the sake of entertainment. Comical touch given to the entire Film from characters to situations to the dialogues keeps it engaging. Frances McDormand scores strong merits in her lovable role. All male actors have done a great deal of job in every freaking scene. Joel Coen in Director's chair handles the overall narrative with care but gives away lot of scenes to point a finger on him. I don't really see any logic in that scene when the Pregnant Cop meets her old friend or should i say Ex-boyfriend and suddenly the scene is cut without any clear ending. The next mention comes when she realises that he was a psychotic, well, what difference does that make to her and to the story and to the audience? Comedy is one of the biggest saving grace of the film because such dark stories look bore without humourous shades. Overall, Fargo put up a great show in quick time of 100 minutes and you don't have anything to be disappointed so watch it anytime you feel like watching a crime film in feel-good movie genre.

RATING - 7/10*

By - #samthebestest