Seven Psychopaths
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
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- Cast:
- Colin Farrell , Sam Rockwell , Woody Harrelson , Christopher Walken , Olga Kurylenko , Tom Waits , Abbie Cornish
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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
The acting in this movie is really good.
Its impressive. the main character's name is a martin faranan, so director and writer. i like that, i like martin faranan mcdonagh.
I feel this is a movie that when revisited several times, you will see and hear something different each time. Loved Sam Rickwell's Character and the concept of the film is unique.
I get where this movie is coming from. It has witty dialogue and is meant to be campy and nonsensical but while retaining a driven story. I've seen films do this and succeed. This film, with its various characters and their intertwining stories, had a lot of potential. But it failed. I'm not too surprised to see so many people lauding it as brilliant. It can be fun at times and as I said it has some witty dialogue but other than that it's just a failed repeat of what I've seen in better films. Yeah, the movie is self-aware - it knows it's a movie hence the camp - but none of it really culminates into a worthwhile story. The actors do a decent job but there's nothing special in their performances. Farrell and Rockwell are supposed to drive the film but they lack chemistry which could be purposeful as it's one seemingly normal man realizing his friend is deranged. But it doesn't come off as organic and let me say this - a movie can be campy and nonsensical and flashy and still have its characters come off as organic. This film failed. I'd say it's just an average film with nothing particularly outstanding about it. However, after the introduction of the, ahem, six psychopaths it gets really boring as absolutely nothing happens until the end of the film. And we don't have characters who are likable enough to provide us with the entertainment we need during this large portion of the film so, ultimately, in my eyes this means it isn't just an average film - it's a bad film. Maybe so because it had so much potential that others somehow saw come to life yet all I saw was a lack of such great development which left feeling gypped.
This is a wanna be Quentin Tarantino flic. It doesn't succeed. At least with Tarantino there is a story-line and the dialogue can be slick and comical. This hardly exists in this film despite a cast of interesting characters. Its' misogynistic, which is curiously stated by one of the actors at the half-way point.The first half precedes well-enough, but then evaporates into a mish- mash. The film-makers are almost pleading with the audience to provide an ending solution to their troubled movie. How to end, when to end, where to end... It just dissolves into dribble.