Seven Psychopaths:
If you like weird and dark comedy, funny characters, and cool action and violence, you'll love this slick new thriller from Martin McDonagh. When screenwriter Marty, his best friend Billy, and Billy's friend Hans steal a Shih Tzu, they have no idea who they're dealing with. They find out they have stolen from mob boss Charlie Costello, a psycho with an insane love of his dog. The friends go on an action-packed, comic adventure to evade this crazy gangster. Now, that's as far as I can go because I'll run amuck of spoiling the plot, and that's something I don't want to do. The "seven psychos" of the poster and trailer are actually not the psychos in the film. Well, some of them are, but I can't go too much into that without, well, spoiling the film. All I can say wihtout spoiling too much is that Abby Cornish and Olga Kurylenko are not part of the psychos, and do not have nearly as large a role as they appear to have in the trailer. What I can say is the cast and writing are excellent. It's like if a Quentin Tarantino film mixed with a dark comedy from Troy Duffy, and then fused together with a slick film from Guy Ritchie. The film mixes many genres: crime, thriller, dark comedy, and action. The film has many twists that will leave audience members as pleasantly surprised as I was. The trailer doesn't show nearly as many funny lines as the film has. This is a film that will most likely show up on my best films of the year list, because Colin Farrell (in his best movie in years), Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, and Woody Harrelson all give spectacular, weird, and funny perofrmances that play to each actor's strengths, but somehow all feel very similar, and this and the weird and goofy plot and writing, give the film a very surreal and strange flavor that really reminds you of work by Edgar Wright, and really astonishes. With great writing and directing, a brilliant cast, and a plot that feels both strange but not all that insane, I can safely say that Seven Psychopaths will please a lot of people, and may be Oscar-worthy. 4.5/5 stars.
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