I think I was expecting a lot more laughs but it just misses with almost every scene

Pointless waste of time. The actors are good, but the plot is dull and the "ensemble cast" is total marketing. Far beneath anything Joel Coen should be involved. They phoned this one in. Stay home and rewatch "Hail Caesar."

It doesn’t fully cohere, but it sure is a party.

The result is a mere yarn that, lacking any sense of meaningful retrospect at a quarter century’s distance, remains untethered at either end of its time line and merely goes slack.

In many ways this feels like an update on the exploitation movies of the 1970s and '80s that played on drive-in theater screens before eventually making their way to VHS and late-night TV cult viewings. It’s Sharp Cheddar Cheese on Wry (sorry) and it’s a cool and breezy 84 minutes of fun.

Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times