Think the setup, the overall idea and execution was great in bits and pieces, the performances were decent albeit the characters weren't written as well the actors made them to be. The second half of the movie, and the pay off too jarring to make this a 'masterpiece' it is being made out to be. Take the scene where the boy puts a big knife to his dad's throat... the very next instant the young girlfriend walks in as what can only be described as comic relief or "cutting the tension"... and I can point out several other things I thought were poorly executed and hamfisted in the story to keep pushing it along. Frances McDormand should probably get the big award for this but she has done better roles than this one.
