I just love it.
I don’t care what anybody thinks.
I love the gospel music performances and I love the idea that a little British fella shot it with some dorky film nerds directing.

The Coens are way too talented to make something that doesn't work but this sure comes awfully fucking close. Every scene is masterfully comedic (that football scene was WOW) but never seems to have any connection to the story - until just before you're about to just give up on the whole thing and it comes together. Supremely disjointed but somehow this is almost coherent, and more importantly it's oddly hilarious and even raucously entertaining when it works.

This film feels like a montage of Coens Bros' scenes more than a single narrative experience. While at times it may seem to be trying to make you think, it's more enjoyable as simple entertainment if u shut ur brain off. I think the reason for the low average score is that this isnt always clear.

And I'm not even gonna talk about Tom Hanks. Every bit of that was a choice.

"You brought yo bitch...to the waffle hut."

The Ladykillers has been deemed by many to be The Coen Brothers' weakest film. And while it isn't there best work, it certainly isn't there worst either. It's funny throughout, Tom Hanks gives one hell of performance here, and I loved where the third act went. But I hated the last two minutes of the movie. A lot.

Definitely worth a look if you liked some of the brothers' previous comedic efforts. It's just odd to think that they followed this one up with No Country for Old Men.

I was both extremely bored by the film and extremely distracted by Hanks’ bad accent and the uncomfortably broad caricatures of black Southerners. Easily the worst Coen I’ve watched thus far.

”Professor, I'm surprised!”
“Well... uh... properly speaking, madam, we are surprised. You are taken aback.”

Besides Crystal Pepsi one of the greatest soda disasters of all-time was when Coke tweaked the formula that people loved and released New Coke. Same ingredients made by the same people, but somehow a bit of the magic was missing.

Ladykillers is the New Coke of the Coen Brothers bottling company.

It’s a rare misfire that’s not awful, but sadly some of the Coen magic is missing.

BONUS POINTS for the Waffle Hut scene in which all of the magic is still very much intact..

”Madam, we must have waffles! We must all have waffles forthwith!”

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Yeah so maybe this is the worst Coen Brothers movie but I still found it pretty enjoyable. Even if the plot is super barebones and none of the characters are particularly interesting, it has enough of the fun dialogue and jokes you come to expect from the Coens to make it a pretty fun watch.

If you're a fan of the Coens like me but have heard bad things about this I'd still recommend giving it a go. But otherwise you can probably just skip this one.

The Works | The Coen Brothers

A woeful misfire from Joel and Ethan Coen in the latter’s first credited directorial feature in an almost farcical adaptation of the Ealing Studios classic with an assortment of characters belonging in differing films crammed into this over-egged pudding of a film with little substance.

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Tremendous talent in front of and behind the camera, but it just doesn’t come together.

The characters should be funny, but they don’t connect.

The actors all perform their hearts out, but don’t suit their roles, and have zero chemistry.

The script is funny, but none or the jokes land.

Deakins is the best cinematographer alive, and it’s gorgeous, but he doesn’t fit the material. Rich, dark colours and lighting…but it doesn’t do anything for the story. It’s an extremely silly comedy that looks exactly like ‘No Country for Old Men.’

Coens can obviously direct, but their understated style can’t work if what’s on screen isn’t inherently interesting or funny. 
You can tell everyone knew it wasn’t working, but we’re too uncomfortable to say anything. So let’s all just take a mulligan on this one and pretend it never happened.

“...this is highly irregular”

Not enough ladies were killed.

Don’t get the hate at all. Solid ensemble comedy, with some great philosophical ideas. Exactly what makes the Coen’s so great.

hilarious

only coen i hadn't seen. i heard it was bad.

turns out it's bad

I feel like the Coen bros could’ve utilized JK Simmons a little better here. Marlon Waynes is typecast as the typical gangster but somehow he actually does a good job here playing into that type. Still feel kinda iffy about whether I should give this 3 stars, but I’ll leave it here for now. 

Bottom-tier Coen bros movie but not as bad as I was expecting. Some of the time the movie works because of them, other times it comes off as a weak, generic comedy. Some original moments, some too overused comedy. It’s really just like a mixed bag with this movie. Not as funny as Burn After Reading I can say that for sure.

Lives down to its reputation as the Coen Brothers' worst film. A tenuous farce severely lacking in wit, bite and drive.

Utan tvekan bröderna Coens svagaste film. Alla karaktärer är platta stereotyper, svåra att relatera till, och emellanåt rasistiskt skildrade? slutet är någorlunda tillfredsställande men inte alls tillräckligt för att stötta upp det här försöket till samhällskritik som är grumligt som bäst.

an hour in, i was like  “wtf am i watching” but then j.k. simmons had a brutal IBS episode mid-heist and i said ohh it’s  ✨cinema✨