Seven Psychopaths

[BillBrasky]

The description says "comedy" so that's what I'm going with!

Release Date: October 12, 2012 (limited)
Studio: CBS Films
Director: Martin McDonagh
Screenwriter: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko, Zeljko Ivanek
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for strong violence, bloody images, pervasive language, sexuality/nudity and some drug use)

Plot Summary: Written and directed by Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh , the comedy "Seven Psychopaths" follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.

Trailer:

[JDiddy]

I just found out about this yesterday, and I'm excited. I loved In Bruges and I love most of the actors in this so this is a must see for me.

[Fritz Zwicky]

LOVE In Bruges. This is also going to be great, although I wish whoever edited the trailer wasn't so clearly insecure and desperate. Definitely, though, continue to add in some ch-ching noises whenever money shows up. Great job, bro.

[BillBrasky]

This was overall enjoyable, although nowhere near as good as In Bruges. McDonagh's roots as a playwright reveal themselves in long, talky scenes of hitmen and criminals talking amusingly about mundane subjects, only for the scenes to then end shockingly in violence. This is nothing really new, Tarantino has made a career out of this of course, but it was done well enough here and there are some funny meta moments with Colin Farrell and Sam Rockwell's characters where they discuss everything that's happening to them as if it were happening in a movie. The movie was ultimately a little bit unfocused though and didn't really seem to have much of a point. It was really great to see Christopher Walken being exceptionally Christopher Walken-ish again though, as it seems like he hasn't really done this kind of role in a while and he is always fantastic at it.

There wasn't anything really wrong with the movie, it just seemed like the kind of movie that could have been made 10-15 years ago when there were a spate of Tarantino knockoffs being made and ultimately I kind of wished it had been about something a little bit more than "people in this world can often be violent".