Last Friday I saw the movie, Honey Don’t! and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is my second time hanging out with Margaret Qualley under Ethan Coen’s direction. She’s just as charming as she was in Drive Away Dolls though this Margaret Qualley is working with much more focus than her counterpart.

Before we go further, I’m going to talk spoilers. I think you should see this movie, it’s interesting, beautifully shot and whip smart.

Now for those that are still here, this isn’t a detective story, it’s a story about a detective. The titular Honey doesn’t solve a single mystery. Half the time she can’t even get any traction before the person she’s looking for gets killed. What we have are several stories that are intersecting with Honey at their middle.

It gives such a real life feel to the film. The way that we pass in and out of each other’s lives but the story goes on only vaguely affected by our presence.

Honey is investigating the death of a young woman that was supposed to be her client. She finds out that she went to this church run by Reverend Drew, who is played by Chris Evans returning to his early roles of funny douchebag. Reverend Drew is part of a secret drug dealing operation run by Cher, the representative of “the French”. Given what happens to him and how he affects the story, he’s a villain for sure but not really an antagonist to Honey. His sins eventually catch up to him without any intervention on Honey’s part.

There are also two cops that are played by Charlie Day and Aubrey Plaza. Charlie isn’t given much to do besides sexually harass the lesbian Honey, which I think is probably this film’s one misstep. However, Aubrey presents a stranger, more sinister vibe from the introduction of her character.

The dialogue is whip smart and funny. Ethan makes do with the location of the American southwest in the same way him and his brother did for No Country For Old Men. And that kind of fits into all of this, if you like that movie, I think you’ll enjoy this. If you haven’t seen any other Coen brothers movies, I can recommend all of them including this one.