Synopsis
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
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Cast
- Tom HanksProfessor G.H. Dorr
- Irma P. HallMarva Munson
- Marlon WayansGawain MacSam
- J.K. SimmonsGarth Pancake
- Tzi MaThe General
- Ryan HurstLump Hudson
- Diane DelanoMountain Girl
- George WallaceSherriff Wyner
- John McConnellDeputy Sheriff
- Jason WeaverWeemack Funthes
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Tribune
Done with an enticing mixture of lacerating comedy, lush Roger Deakins cinematography, robust acting and juicy lines, the Coens' Ladykillers is often glorious fun to watch. It won't please everyone, of course. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
A lot of good actors have gone to work for the Coens and ended up looking like puppets, but Hanks is too clever for that. He knows that he's playing a concoction rather than a human being. - 80
Time
The Coen brothers merrily subvert that standard caper trope. - 80
The A.V. Club
Already as dark as London soot, the comedy hardly needed work to bring it in line with the Coen brothers' sensibility, but the remake moves to a beat of its own, one unexpectedly in sync with the gospel music dominating its soundtrack. - 75
Charlotte Observer
The new version of The Ladykillers is like an able forger's copy of a masterpiece. The brushstrokes are broader, the colors are a little less subtle, and one or two portions of the canvas were finished in a hurry. But it's well worth a look if you're passing by. - 70
Dallas Observer
The Ladykillers fits snugly among the Coens' lighter and breezier movies--the ones you forget after you see them once and begin to appreciate and finally adore the more often you revisit them. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Where the best Coen brothers comedy is a matter of finely tuned tone, diction, attitude and visual rhythms, everything in The Ladykillers feels out of kilter. With Tom Hanks delivering -- arguably -- one of the most perplexing performances of his career. - 60
L.A. Weekly
It's the disease of Hollywood remakes that they nearly always lose sight of what made the original good in the first place. Where Alexander Mackendrick's film offered a delicately diabolical blend of the ordinary and the brutal -- the new Ladykillers bludgeons you with cartoonish gags about stupid football players, irritable-bowel syndrome and somebody accidentally shooting himself in the head.
