Fargo

Fargo is such a good Coen Brothers' film. I'd think it was one of the best. Fargo merges the serious Coen films such as No Country for Old Men with some of they're more comedic movie like The Big Lebowski.

Fargo is the true (or is it?) story of a bizarre kidnapping conspired by the victim's husband, non other than William H. Macy, in order to get some cash out of his father-in-law. The kidnappers are Coen regulars, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare. Stormare plays the quiet and subtle, but sadistic, Gaear Grimsrud. Buscemi, quite the opposite of Stormare, is the load and annoying Carl Showalter, creating an odd couple.



Along the way people began to interfere with Macy's plan. His father-in-law get the police in on it. Frances McDormand, Joel Coen's wife, is a pregnant cop in search of the kidnappers. She puts on one of the best voices in the film besides Macy.

So, I think this is one of the Coen's best. It has great comedy, good tension, although not a tense as No Country.