Then she makes Miles fall for her. Only it's all part of her scheme. The Coen brothers try to give L. The crazy Coen style is in evidence here. The fast-talking dialog is dense, but doesn't flow. The mannerisms are exaggerated without the humorous effects. The biggest problem is that divorce lawyers aren't funny, and even the Coen brothers can't make them so.
Not just the lawyers, everybody is disgusting, scheming, sleazy, money grubbing lowlifes. They're just more beautiful while doing it. I don't care about anybody or anything in this movie. I don't care about Miles, and I don't care if Miles get taken, and I don't care if Miles is truly in love. Miles Massey George Clooney is a very successful divorce lawyer, the best in his field and president of a organization specialized in divorces. In one of his trials, he wins a case apparently lost against the smart Marylin Rexroth Catherine Zeta-Jones.
However, he has a crush on her, but she gets married again with Howard D. Doyle Billy Bob Thornton , a wealthy man from oil business in Texas.
There are nasty characters and situations, many plot points and some good jokes along this amoral story. However, the corny and commercial end ruins the cynicism of the plot and the flick becomes a conventional romantic comedy. In the end, it is a watchable and forgettable entertainment. My vote is six. Far from their best work with a few weak spots but still an enjoyable farce bob the moo 8 November Miles Massey is an amazing divorce lawyer who has a well-earned reputation.
When he takes on the case of Rex Rexroth, who was caught on video cheating with another woman, he successfully wins the case and leaves the wronged wife, Marylin, with nothing. However he also falls for her, but she is planning his downfall in return for her losing everything she had. With a big name pair of leads, it does look very much like the Coen's were looking for a big screen hit that would support their work to a greater extent than the loyal fan base does.
As that sort of film, it seems to be doing OK, but, I wondered, at what cost to the product? The film starts well enough with an interesting case which we actually see little of, however the character of Miles is enough to hold the film together. The film contains the usual mix of larger than life characters and quirky humour, but the central romancing doesn't always hold true and there are stretches where the humour dips away to find that there is very little left without it.
Having said that, this doesn't occur often enough to be a problem and the film is still pretty good fun. The characters are it's making and there are enough of those to make it work. Clooney excels in the lead with a strange sort of humour - the same sort of character he played in "O Brother" if you ask me, but he does seem to have a touch for the comic stuff.
Jones is less assured and her character has less of the humour I expect from the Coens and is more of a straight role. The support cast is all good as they provide small snippets of humour, whether it be Wheezy Joe or the rude waitress. Overall it is not the cleverest film the Coen's have done, nor the funniest or most satisfying but, as a multiplex pleasing romance with quirky humour, it does work and should be enjoyed as that.
A gold digger Catherine Zeta-Jones tries to get wealthy from divorcing her adulterous husband. What she doesn't expect is the powerful attorney skills of Max George Clooney.
He shoots her down, and she has revenge on her mind: so she quickly finds another husband to dig gold from, and begins the game anew The Coens know how to craft a film. I am not sure how often they have worked with Zeta-Jones, but they positioned her perfectly here.
She comes off as smart, loquacious and probably the sexiest she's ever been on camera despite being pregnant during filming. There are some twists in this film that I didn't see coming, and some I did. Underneath it all, it's a romantic comedy. Sure, there's some obstacles, but isn't that how it goes? But I think this romantic comedy fares better than most: it is not simply made for women, but tries to be sincerely humorous and clever, which I think will appeal to both genders.
You probably can't relate this story to your real life, but that's not the point: it's a movie. The Coens can do no wrong, it seems, and "Intolerable Cruelty" further establishes that hypothesis. While not as outright funny as some of their films, it has a steady pace and interesting characters Coen and Clooney together is movie-making gold. If this title didn't have a catchy title, some good names in the cast, and made by the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan Raising Arizona, No Country for Old Men , I don't know if I would have watched this to be honest.
Basically Miles Longfellow Massey George Clooney is the Los Angeles divorce lawyer with everything he could ever want, all the luxuries in the world, an impressive win record, and respect from everyone he knows.
But he is becoming bored of his success and wants new challenges, and things change when he meets his match in Marylin Rexroth Catherine Zeta-Jones , ex-wife of his new client, wealthy real estate developer and habitual philanderer Rex Rexroth Edward Herrmann. She has managed to nail Rex with the help of private investigator Gus Petch Cedric the Entertainer and is looking forward to the big divorce settlement, only to end with nothing because of the skills of Miles.
To get revenge on the rival lawyer, Marilyn schemes a plan to reel him in, starting with a quick marriage to oil tycoon Howard Drexler Doyle Billy Bob Thornton. Trying to go against her Miles and his associate Wrigley Paul Adelstein only dig themselves deeper, but the battle of the sexes only brings the rivals closer and closer, to the point of undeniably escalating attraction. By the end, Gus has his own show on TV revolving around nailing people on camera, and Miles and Marilyn get married themselves, the feud between them pretty much vanishes.
I found quite a lot of confusing, especially Clooney's weird facial expressions, I wondered if Zeta-Jones was speaking her native Welsh accent, and many other cast members were wooden, I just didn't find it that funny or inventive, I just liked the courtroom stuff, but overall, not a very memorable satirical romantic comedy.
Okay, in my opinion! George Clooney is a high-priced lawyer in this comedic treatment of marriage and divorce, and Catherine Zeta-Jones is one of a pack of women who search out men of awesome wealth in order to clean their clocks during the divorce that immediately follows. Need it be added that cynicism abounds? He asks her if she's ever heard of David Newton or some such name and she answers that, yes, he's the tennis pro who teaches at her club.
Clooney whips around and faces her with an "Ah-HAH! Well, I'll give another example. Then, at the wedding, Thornton proves his undying faith in Jones by tearing up the pre-nuptial agreement and eating it after dipping it in Texas barbecue sauce. During the wedding celebration, with the band playing and Jones still in her bridal dress, Clooney takes her aside and asks, "Now that the marriage is winding down, have you given any thought to your plans for the future?
The wedding isn't even over but Clooney and Jones already know that the next step is divorce. Okay, another gag. Clooney is giving a speech before an assembly of the nation's top divorce lawyers in a Las Vegas ballroom. They are all members of the National Organization of Marriage Attorneys of Nevada or something like that. The N.
Behind Clooney's lectern is a banner spelling out, "Let N. Put Asunder. Jones hires a private eye, Cedric the Entertainer, to get the photographic goods on one of her husbands, Edward Hermann. I am the world's greatest ass nailer. But it doesn't matter much. Jones the Barracuda and Clooney the Master Manipulator fall in love and live happily ever after.
The rest is a series of gags, visual and auditory, smuggled into the narrative, sometimes crabwise. I hate to use the word "sophisticated" in describing a comedy like this. But in both cases you need to keep on your mental toes to catch the more subtle goings on. As in the case of Lubisch's film, when bomber pilot Robert Stack claims that he can deliver a thousand pounds of dynamite all at once and Carol Lombard's face lights up with anticipation.
A beautiful gold digger matches wits with a shrewd Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who is increasingly attracted to her. Miles Massey, a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney has everything--and in some cases, two of everything.
Despite his impressive client list, a formidable win record, the respect of his peers and an ironclad contract the Massey pre-nup named after him, he's reached a crossroads in his life.
Sated on success, boredom has set in and he's looking for new challenges. All that changes when Miles meets his match in the devastating Marylin Rexroth. Marylin is the soon-to-be ex-wife of his client Rex Rexroth, a wealthy real estate developer and habitual philanderer. With the help of hard charging private investigator Gus Petch, she has Rex nailed and is looking forward to the financial independence a successful divorce will bring.
Miles manages to make sure Rex keeps everything in the divorce. Marylin introduces Howard Doyle as her fiancee, and Marylin reveals the marriage is just for the Doyle fortune.
She and Doyle divorce, and Miles sees her a divorce lawyer's convention in Vegas. Both characters are sharks, but both are human, too, and their mutual sexual attraction is so palpable you could cook with it. Miles is moved with the profound admiration only one slickster can have for another; when Marylin actually inspires Howard to eat the uncrackable Massey Pre-Nup with barbecue sauce , Miles realizes he is witnessing not just beauty and genius, but a will to challenge his own.
Plots like this have fueled lovely screwball comedies, and "Intolerable Cruelty" is in the genre, but somehow not of it. The Coens sometimes have a way of standing to one side of their work: It's the puppet and they're the ventriloquists. The puppet is sincere, but the puppetmaster is wagging his eyebrows at the audience and asking, can you believe this stuff?
Joel and Ethan are bounteously gifted filmmakers, but sometimes you just want them to lay off the irony and climb down here with the groundlings. Their " Fargo " was a movie that loved its characters, and it's one of the best movies I've ever seen. It is hard to show the Coens' distancing process at work without revealing the movie's secrets, but let me try. The film is told from Massey's point of view.
There is something that he wants: Marylin. He desires her so badly that in order to get her, he would balance the Massey Pre-Nup on his own head and crack it himself, with a hammer. We sympathize with this desire, because we share it. We want him to win her. The question is, does she want him? Of course she wants his money; that goes with the territory.
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