Seven Psychopaths review

Seven Psychopaths is  a funny but unpredictable excellent piece of cinema. The film is the second feature from In Bruges director Martin McDonagh and a narrative that works brilliantly later on in the film.  McDonagh's cast is brilliant and not short of talent– this includes; Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish and Olga Kurylenko — and that’s just the tip of the ice burg.

It is unquestionable that Martin McDonagh has not just written a movie, but rather he might have written a statement that ridiculously attacks the fierceness of Hollywood usual cliche. The film is done in a characteristically self-referential manner that almost raises the question of which is a legitimate plot development or was the writer/director just trying to have fun at the industry’s expense?

The most amazing aspect of this film is its ability to use as weapon its own story and characters to bring out the inherent wackiness of its kind, but yet it also has a vein of homicide seriousness to it -   that almost send a painful shock through when watching.

McDonagh casts Colin Farrell again, but this time as screenwriter Marty who imagines up the title Seven Psychopaths that leads on to other things before his path crosses with a real-life gangster - a character played by Woody Harrelson. 

To make the melodrama so absorbing while still keeping viewers unsure and off-balance, McDonagh presented a well executed scene where, Walken’s relationship with his cancer-stricken wife; Linda Bright Clay, was sentimental and heart-breaker, but at the same time funny as hell. Yet to show the horrible doings of his group of psychopaths, McDonagh also used frightful and shocking characters with diverse genre which is complex to classify

Giving you anything more at this point will only chipen the enjoyment but nevertheless, Seven Psychopaths is not just made out of several twisted and intertwining stories, it also has intertwining ideas. Part of the fun mostly, is trying to figure out what exactly the director McDonagh is implying and trying to do using the film medium. 

While trying to work out which is which, one thing is clear;  it is wacky, fun, sad, creepy but at the same time very clever. McDonagh must be delightful in pulling apart the traditional gangster film.