I didn't mind. It was nice to see Anderson working with other actors. Anderson seems to set his movies up as stories within a story, or a story relayed third-hand by one narrator or another. Murray's character was interesting to me because he was the emissary of a somewhat shadowy group within the story of the story being told by Jude Law's/Tom Wilkinson's character. I guess for me, that fits in with the whole, "this story is being told to you by someone who heard it from someone else" in that in those second or third-hand narratives, more detail may be desired by the listener, but is ultimately unavailable because the person retelling the story does not know themselves. It just reminds me that it's so hard to know what is true and what may as well be fiction when we hear stories in this fashion.