While sitting through this bad movie, hoping it would end soon, I could not help wondering what "Suburbicon" was really all about. A black comedy satire about murdering your wife for insurance money or a commentary on bigotry within an all white Suburban community in the 1950's where a young black family moves into an all white neighborhood and is terrorized by all of the white residents? When it was all finally over, I still didn't know the answer to this question.
A movie that is trying to be a black comedy, a satire, and a commentary on race relations all at the same time is a very bad idea. Even more surprising was that the screenplay for this film was written by Joel and Ethan Coen, two of the best screenwriters of all time. I thought it was surprising that both Matt Damon and George Clooney read the script for this movie and still decided to make it. My guess is that Clooney and Damon just thought that because the Coen brothers wrote this bad script then it must be good. Very bad decision.
The ratings on Rottentomatoes for this movie are very low, only 26% and for IMDB only 4.7. These numbers are very low and this movie deserves these low ratings. This film is yet another very bad attempt to be very different with a screenplay and movie idea and in the end the most important thing is lost - actually entertaining the audience.
I thought this was a pretty bad movie and it should not be seen by anyone.
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