Seven Psychopaths
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Seven Psychopaths

2012
★★★½

Watched 21 Apr 2013

One of the darkest black comedies I have seen for a long time, this second feature length film from In Bruges director Martin McDonagh has some surreal moments that will live long in the memory.
If you had to pick seven psychopaths from the thousands of Hollywood actors working today, I'm sure Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson would be among them. Add Colin "fecking" Farrell, and you have the makings of a classic. Well not quite. Although this has its moments, it also has its lulls where the plot meanders a little and loses some of it's momentum.
The plot as it is is hard to follow. Screenwriters, dog-nappers, and violent gangsters, this has a dark satirical edge that is cruelly comic. Violent in an almost graphic novel sort of way, the violence is effective, but with a tongue-in-cheek quality that never feels gratuitous. Funny and strangely quirky, with Sam Rockwell on terrific form, this stretches for greatness but comes up just short. McDonagh will always have my attention after his magnum opus that was In Bruges, and I look forward to what he does next.

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