I’m a big Coen Bros fan so I wanted to round out their catalog  by renting these two older films.  Sadly I wasn’t really impressed with either, though they both had their charm.

Blood Simple had a few really good scenes, the best one being where the PI reaches around the building and then… well I won’t spoil it.  The acting was solid but nothing really stood out.  It was more mediocre than it was awful, it just didn’t capture my attention and I didn’t care about any of the characters all that much.  The only really interesting character was M. Emmet Walsh’s and didn’t get enough focus in the film.

Miller’s Crossing was better, though it suffered from two flaws: the protagonist was unsympathetic and not really that interesting either, and also that it had no real standout scenes or characters that would make it memorable.  If Gabriel Byrne was supposed to just act aimless and confusing all the time, he did a good job in that.  Thing is though, everyone around him did a pretty good job.  John Turturro at his very finest, but yet again his role is extremely minor.