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...scenery and special effects of the ruins of Los Angeles are fabulous and make for some good one-liners. In one scene, Snake and Map To The Stars Eddie (Steve Buscemi) come upon the remains of Disney Land. Eddie points to the park and utters an incisive one-liner: "It's a shame. That thing in Europe really killed...
Jerry hires two thugs, the meek Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and deadly Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) from Fargo, North Dakota, to execute the plan. Unfortunately, Carl and Gaear are incompetant, and a botched kidnapping leads quickly to successful murder...
...film--which has not much at all to do with Fargo, North Dakota--is about the difficulty real folks have pulling off crimes that always go smoothly in fiction. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) needs a lot of cash, so he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife for the ransom money. But these guys aren't smooth criminals; they go nuts trying to put on a galosh or scrape the ice off their windshield. Two incompetent murders later, police chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) commences her investigation. And the bad guys get the frozen...
Macy is an ace at doing hysteria in a narrow range, and Buscemi scores as a sick goofus whom one witness IDs as "funny-lookin'--more than most people even." There's enough gore to make this a Mystery Violence Theater. After some superb mannerist films, the Coens are back in the deadpan realist territory of Blood Simple, but without the cinematic elan. Fargo is all attitude and low aptitude. Its function is to italicize the Coens' giddy contempt toward people who talk and think Minnesotan. Which is, y'know, kind of a bad deal...
...Richard Corliss. The film -- which has not much at all to do with Fargo, North Dakota -- is about the difficulty real folks have pulling off crimes that always go smoothly in fiction. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) needs a lot of cash, so he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife for the ransom money. But these guys aren't smooth criminals; they go nuts trying to put on a galosh or scrape the ice off their windshield. In the end, though, "'Fargo' is all attitude and low aptitude," Corliss notes. "Its function...