Miller's Crossing Rating: Release Date: 20 May, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: Gabriel Byrne John Turturro Albert Finney Steve Buscemi Complete Cast (10 total)

Miller's Crossing Reviews

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A homey, circumscribed and excellent little movie
Miller's Crossing has a fairy-tale quality about it. Within the homey and narrow scope of what it's doing, it succeeds superbly. The character work and cinematography are outstanding, and the music is an integral element, too.

The story is circumscribed and without overt interest in seeking to move you very deeply but it is neither distant nor dry or cold, either. On first viewing, it strongly led me to view it a second time to catch the threads and dialogue I knew were there but missed on the first run through.

Of all the Coens' work, only "Brother, Where Art Thou" comes close, almost. TIME Magazine's "All Time 100 Best Films" list (drawn up by Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss) has Miller's Crossing in its ranks, but nary a Fargo to be found. Certainly the two gents had to negotiate their pick, and it was Miller's Crossing that they chose.

My favorite little nugget is when Tom gets roughed up in the warehouse, and I'm certain you can hear the brief sound of whooping and hollering Indians on thundering horseback as he goes unconscious.

I absolutely love Miller's Crossing, and I want me' hat, too.

Laugh Out Loud Bad
Take Hammett's "The Glass Key" (and be sure not to credit it), muck it up with pointless violence, mix with stilted, often inane dialogue which would not be out of place in a comic book, stir in over-the-top ham acting by just about everyone, add cartoonish, cliched scene setup and direction and you've got "Miller's Crossing", the most unintentionally hilarious gangster movie I ever saw.
Was there a script? Did the actors ever see it? Is this all improv?
Were he not dead, I would have suspected the immortal Ed Wood Jr. of having directed this film! Then again...
A marvel of directorial ineptitude, this a "must see" comedy experience!


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