I think anyone who saw it can mutually agree that 2008's In Bruges-written and directed by Martin McDonagh was a great film. It was a wonderful, hilarious comedy with a surprisingly great performance from Colin Farrell as well as Brendan Gleeson. Now-McDonagh teams up again with Farrell along with Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Tom Waits among others. The film at hand here is Seven Psychopaths and as with In Bruges-it is a brilliant gangster comedy that makes fun of every movie cliche.
In the film-Farrell plays Marty-a struggling screenwriter who gets involved with a dog kidnapping by a dangerous gangster (Harrelson.) He gets involved because his friend Billy (Rockwell) and his partner, Hans (Walken) kidnapped the Shih Tzu of said gangster. All the while-Marty is trying to write an original film about-well-seven different psychopaths.
The film is unlike anything you are likely to see. It is original both in the way it is presented and the way everything goes down/ It is a film that is guaranteed to be enjoyed by cinephiles across the country but pretty much anyone should enjoy this film. The acting is also quite excellent. Rockwell and Farrell are both excellent-bringing a comic force that just spills off the screen. Waits has a good scene as a psychopath who comes into play significantly late into the film. Also-need it be said that Walken and Harrelson are the two best parts of the film? If there are two people you can guarantee a great performance out of-it would be these two and they have never been better. This is Walken's best and most lively performance since 2003's The Rundown and Harrelson continues to get me to love him more and more with every performance. The film is uber-violent at times including a hilarious conversation about uber-violence in the first scene that sets up the rest of the film. However, if you can get past the brief spouts of this type of violence-it is actually killer fun to see heads explodes, bodies fall apart, ETC.
Funny, surprisingly touching and very, very different-Seven Psychopaths is the most fun I have had at the movies in quite some time. It is a film that should truly be enjoyed by the masses and gives the definition of "hilarious" a whole new meaning.
(5 out of 5 Stars, The film is rated R for strong violence, bloody images, pervasive language, sexuality/nudity and some drug use)
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