Hail, Caesar! Movie Review 19th April 2016

Hail, Caesar!

Hail, Caesar a film written and directed by the diverse genre defying Joel and Ethan Coen (Children of Men, Burn After Reading, The Big Lebowski), takes you into a day of fixer man, Eddie Mannix, whose job is to disguise Hollywood scandal and maintain general ‘showbizz’ order.  Opening the movie in a confession box, where Mannix Josh Brolin, confesses his truths of smoking cigarettes against his wife’s wishes, Hail, Caesar trips the audience into a classic Coen character trope in a movie where kidnappings are absurdly moral and Caesar meets Jesus. The casting call to this film is beyond expectation with meta theatrical Scarlett Jo, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton.