SPOILERS IN THE PICTURES.
Psychopaths. Seven of 'em. Maybe more like 8 depending on your definition on the word. Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christoper Walken, Woody Harrelson, and Tom Waits all giving great performances for a hyper meta thriller-shoot-em-up. Reminds me a calmer, more focused Domino. (Maybe it's the Walken connection, maybe it's just that everything reminds me of Domino because I still believe that much-maligned dreck is actually a trashterpiece- a trashy masterpiece) Writer/director Martin McDonagh also did In Bruges (mancrush on Colin Farrell, perhaps? Although he is probably one of the more successful excavators of Farrell's excellent comedic timing) which is equally self-aware and clever. This is a movie that does not necessarily hold up, plot-wise, on repeat viewings, but it is a great hangin' out movie. Also, due to its format of the writer being the protagonist it gets to have its cake (being a philosophical movie that doesn't devolve into a mindless shootout between said psychopaths) and eat it too (totally features a dream sequence of said shootout and still manages to end with a less over-the-top shootout anyway). 'Tis good.
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