Despite its incredible cast, this movie's story was all over the place, and it didn't have the comedic thrill that other Coen Brothers' movies have. It was still really fun to watch, and the performances were incredible. I definitely recommend it for comedy fans!

Hail, Caesar! is a lighthearted satire with a gentle bite of cynicism, critiquing the old studio system. The film explores the inherent contradictions of Hollywood—where business and art collide, inspiration coexists with cynicism, and innocence intertwines with sin. It serves as both a sharp commentary and a love letter to classic cinema. Technically well-crafted and superbly acted, the film carries the unmistakable quirks of a Coen Brothers comedy. However, while clever and well-paced, it isn’t particularly laugh-out-loud funny, and its narrative unfolds with subtlety. Watching Hail, Caesar! feels akin to experiencing a cinematic counterpart to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished Hollywood novel, The Last Tycoon, as it playfully satirizes the various genres that populate Turner Classic Movies.

Hilarious commentary and beautifully shot 1950s scenes together. Brilliant. Coen Brothers do it again! And an all star cast! For those who gave it 1 star. Lol. Watch a load more movies and then you'll get it. Only 44% liked this? Crazy! Also where was the chase at the end? Did we watch different movies?

Biting satire of communism and capitalism. Absolutely hilarious. Recommended to first view with an edible, and then again without. Absolutely brilliant.

Well. Due to current reviews. I felt myself to possibly feel underwhelmed by this movie. Seeing it as dull, dumb and truly meaningless. All of these things I saw a complete opposite in. This movie isn’t just one of the Coen Brother’s best but a true win for Hollywood. The film has a abundance of legendary actors & actresses including: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Alden Ehrenreich, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Scarlet Johansson, Tilda Swinton and Michael Gambon. The film bursts bold ideas and plots, set in a fast paced early 1950s while still emerging as quite timely. The comedy was hit upon hit upon hit, never disappointing. 3.5/5 stars

This movie is a good example of the audience being punished by the Coen brothers love affair with themselves. The movie is 90% stylistic musing, and 10% plot. Most of this movie is either pointless celebration of 50's era Hollywood, of pointless exhibition of the Coen brothers displaying their various styles of filmmaking that their known for. Basically, it's all style and no substance. They need to get over themselves.

A beautifully bizarre bag of characters, as only the Coen brothers can package, resurrects the Golden Age of Hollywood. The tap-dancing sailor scene is worth the price of admission alone. 66% of the Rotten Tomatoes audience may just be too young to ‘get’ this one! (6/2/2018)

Despite it's playful tone, I couldn't figure out why I didn't like it. Then my sister said, "Did you notice how it didn't have a story?"

There's some really inspired satire here and not just about Hollywood. It does feel a bit underwhelming at the end but it would be hard to match the energy of the earlier sequences.

Not the best movie I've seen by a long shot. I have to say I found it funny at times but comedy is very subjective this is why could be mistaken as a different genre. Sometimes watching a movie is understanding that is a piece of art and there are no rules to it. An odd but enjoyable movie thanks to the masterful hand of the Cohen brothers and all of its actors. I have to admit I wanted to see more of Ralph Fiennes but is always enjoyable when he is in any movie. Not a very cohesive movie this is why understandably will be off putting for regular moviegoers which are looking for a purpose, straight forward plot, something to relate to, have emotions or simply have fun. It is hard to please an audience but I think this does a terrific job in depicting through an enjoyable performance an interesting topic about Studios and movies.

People, this is first and foremost a satire, an homage to golden age Hollywood second. If you don't view the movie as a pseudo comedy/satire you won't enjoy it. Otherwise, a fantastic cast, incredibly performed up to the standers of the actors portraying them

A disappointment. Especially the final scenes, a chase involving Channing Tatum through several studio sets. Could have been wonderful but was routine and uninspired. Which we also could say about the whole movie.

Pretty good cast, AMAZING cinematography, unfinished story. The humor of this film lies in parody humor of classic film and general film production fanfare. For me, I understood the humor of this film, but I've been exposed to classic film from a young age, so I see how most audience didn't understand it. As for the story, it's another modern open-ended film, of which I find unsatisfying and rather lazy. So if you're a movie fanatic, this is your movie, if not, it's still a stunning homage to 50's film that will probably bore you. 70/100

Hail, Ceasar! is so busy paying homage to old Hollywood that it loses almost all meaning to a regular person. Beautiful people doing beautiful acting that has little appeal to those of us outside the business.

In what can only be claimed as the best possible cast ensembles in recent years, the Coens blend up old facets and sets of Hollywood to great effect. "Hail, Caesar!" is a fantastically odd picture.

There are more better Hollywood studio satire in history. I loved The Player by Altman and Sunset Blvd so much. The ensemble cast in this film is just fun to see.

Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is a fixer for a Hollywood studio, tasked with the duty of protecting the company's stars from scandal. While Hail, Caesar! doesn't live up to the high standards established by the Coen Brothers and is probably one their less memorable efforts, it is entertaining enough throughout and is helped along by a great cast, including George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson and Tilda Swinton, among others. If there is a problem with the movie it is the fact that many of the characters feel unnecessary, as though they were created to simply throw another famous face on the screen, giving it the feel of "hey, Jonah Hill showed up on set!! Can we create a role for him?" The movie has its moments, but ultimately feels forgettable and dispensable.

Specyficzny klimat. Dobrze zagrany. Nie podoba mi się. Nudny. Można robić dzikie, biblijne interpretacje, ale w tym przypadku jakoś mnie nie interesują

I quite enjoyed this film - I watched it knowing its a Coen brothers film, having seen 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' and 'Burn After Reading', so I knew roughly what to expect. This film isn't full of major laugh out loud moments but there are a good number of quite amusing scenes never the less - its perhaps a little too gentle and not as 'in your face' as some people may like their favourite comedy films to be but I certainly found it enjoyable. There is some great cinematography and there is some slapstick humour, with a number of scenes filmed featuring some impressive choreography. As a parody of 1950s Hollywood, particularly of a sort of forced overly happyness aspect of musical films at the time, it does quite well. I liked what happened to George Clooney's character (Baird Whitlock) and the sort of themes or moral messages that come from that. I also enjoyed the rousing music to match the melodrama of the film being, well, filmed during the film itself. I thought this was an easy film to watch, an amusing and mostly quite entertaining one, although the plot pace won't suit all but I'd recommend it to fans of the Coen brothers work.

The Coen Brothers wrote a love letter to postwar Hollywood and the definitively trending genres with accurately faithful production merits finely replicated, therefore screening their strongest points by favorable memory alongside an ensemble cast joining the fun with providing self-ridiculing satire. They planted a tree with a vibrantly picturesque front, obscuring the nonsensically, weakened branches that understandably reflects hinted periodical commentary whilst being well-connected across different backlots/realms/genres, it just doesn't imprint much between relevancy and considerable eventfulness in grasping memory. (B)