The screenplay was featured in the 2006 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year. In early May 2011, the first casting announcements were made. Mickey Rourke dropped out of The Expendables 2 (2012) to co-star in the film. He later dropped out of the film after having disagreements with McDonagh, calling him a "jerk-off." He was ultimately replaced with Woody Harrelson. Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Pitt, and Michael Stuhlbarg rounded out the film's cast. Principal photography took place throughout Los Angeles and Twentynine Palms, California, and wrapped in late 2011.
The film stars Farrell, Rockwell, Harrelson, Walken, Stanton, Waits, Cornish, Kurylenko, Pitt, and Stuhlbarg. All the leads are perfectly cast, and they help turn a light farce with thriller overtones into something deeper and sweeter. The acting is top-notch. Farrell, who seems to be gravitating increasingly toward smaller films, effectively channels his manic energy. He's not a matinee idol, and he's not a suave or heroic leading man. He's a terrific character actor, and he can go to low places that suave heroes can't risk, like anguish, self-hatred, embarrassment, utter confusion and buffoonery. He, Rockwell, and Walken display chemistry in the Odd Trio vein, occasionally giving rise to instances of humor. Harrelson plays one of the most twisted roles of his career.
Featuring witty dialogue and deft performances, In Bruges is an effective mix of dark comedy and crime thriller elements. This sophomore effort by the theater writer and director Martin McDonagh is an endlessly surprising, very dark, human comedy, with a plot that cannot be foreseen but only relished. When it's funny, it's hilarious; when it's serious, it's powerful; and either way, it's an endless pleasant surprise. The film is sharply written, superbly acted, funny and even occasionally touching. Those who know McDonagh's work know a vein of darkness will run deeply through the comedy. It has seldom been darker. Or funnier. He has made a hit-man movie in which you don't know what will happen and can't wait to find out. Every movie should be so cliched. A jolly mess of a film that is overplotted, choppy, and contrived, it nonetheless has a curious vitality that makes you wonder where McDonagh will go next. He's a specialist in constructing satisfying, live-wire dramas of violence that crash up against despair, in upending his characters' miseries with moments of twisted humor, and in sustaining a writing voice that roars with a particularly Irish robustness of obscenity. It may be the film's rather too-long-running joke, but Farrell's shaggy brow is easily the most entertaining thing in Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's first foray into the crime caper.
Simon says Seven Psychopaths receives:
Featuring witty dialogue and deft performances, In Bruges is an effective mix of dark comedy and crime thriller elements. This sophomore effort by the theater writer and director Martin McDonagh is an endlessly surprising, very dark, human comedy, with a plot that cannot be foreseen but only relished. When it's funny, it's hilarious; when it's serious, it's powerful; and either way, it's an endless pleasant surprise. The film is sharply written, superbly acted, funny and even occasionally touching. Those who know McDonagh's work know a vein of darkness will run deeply through the comedy. It has seldom been darker. Or funnier. He has made a hit-man movie in which you don't know what will happen and can't wait to find out. Every movie should be so cliched. A jolly mess of a film that is overplotted, choppy, and contrived, it nonetheless has a curious vitality that makes you wonder where McDonagh will go next. He's a specialist in constructing satisfying, live-wire dramas of violence that crash up against despair, in upending his characters' miseries with moments of twisted humor, and in sustaining a writing voice that roars with a particularly Irish robustness of obscenity. It may be the film's rather too-long-running joke, but Farrell's shaggy brow is easily the most entertaining thing in Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's first foray into the crime caper.
Simon says Seven Psychopaths receives:
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