best movie i've ever seen.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

From the brilliant and twisted mind of Irish playwright/filmmaker Martin McDonagh, 'Six Shooter' is a dark (and I mean DARK) tragicomedy about death. McDonagh is certainly a fearless filmmaker in terms of subject matter, and he is always willing to take the darkest route possible, while also being extremely unpredictable and often going to places almost no other filmmaker would even dream of going to. With 'Six Shooter', he practically dares the viewer to laugh along with this genuinely disturbing and sad and shocking story, but he also allows the viewer to cry and shake in emotional intensity while fully absorbing the total absurdity of violence. No wonder the man went on to make such jaw dropping successes as 'Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri'. No wonder.

So this was nominated for and won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. So intriguing how they done it. Many spend a fortune to get one of those little Oscars, so what was so good about this low budget short movie? We have here 30 mins of mostly three sets of people with some tragedy in their lives which they reveal in one way or the others.Brendan Gleeson is great as always as a brooding big guy, but this time with a burden to carry as big as a rock. On the other hand, the film is stolen by Rúaidhrí Conroy who plays a cold-hearted and motor mouthed young man with a dark secret.It's mostly about the conversations between the characters. There is actually very little "live action". Some dark humour too.Personally, I wasn't blown away by it. I don't know who the other nominees were but surely there were better out there.Not a bad little short story movie, but nothing special in it that will want you to revisit this again.

After seeing 'In Bruges', I got curious of the other film Martin McDonagh had made. This short film is also a dark comedy and tries to make fun of death, suicide and the loss of a loved one. This is of course really hard and not easy to do. It sometimes fails as well at some points, but overall it kinda succeeds. Yet another movie of Martin McDonagh I am not sure what to make of it... strange... but if you like dark twisted humour, then this film is definitely for you.I am not sure if the Oscar was really deserved, but it keeps me thinking at least... 7/10

Finally saw this online and wondering what all the fuss is about. Almost whimsical, I couldn't quite believe the darkness at the centre of the story. There are a couple of good lines and the performances are solid – Rory Conroy being the best. Martin McDonagh is a very talented playwright, but on this evidence his directing is a little flat. Film looks and sounds flat too. What struck me about it was the superficiality of it all, the cynicism. However it does have some funny moments and moves along at a brisk pace. I'm not surprised it was looked on so favourably by the academy, picking up an Oscar for Best Short Film – it has hip written all over it. And it is one of the better short Irish films I've seen, complete with twists and double twists and a lot of flippant dialogue. McDonagh is planning a gangster film with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. I'll pay money to see that. He obviously wants to be the Celtic Scorsese. High point a cow explodes. Low point rather tasteless plot line about a baby's death. Brendan Gleeson is in this film.