The premise may seem far-fetched, but not if you consider that Morocco offered bomb-sniffing monkeys to the “coalition of the willing” for the Iraq War. The leader of the G-Force team is an unconventional human scientist named Ben. The guinea pigs are cast as racial stereotypes.
To watch A Serious Man is like a two-hour exercise in being the hapless sucker left out of an inside joke – which isn’t a very good one to begin with. Joel and Ethan Cohen have enjoyed rampant success in Hollywood for their stunning series of films that are sometimes dramatic and other times comedic, but are always dark and always contain tongue-in-cheek examinations of human habits and behavior.