Seven Psychopaths

 

Seven Psychopaths 2012

• Director: Martin McDonagh
• Seen by this director – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, In Bruges
• Based on novel: no
• Cast: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Abbie Cornish, Gaboury Sidibe, Zeljko Ivanek
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in
• Colin Farrel – The Gentlemen, Widows, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Winter’s Tale, Cassandra’s Dream, Total Recall, Fright Night, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, In Bruges, Miami Vice, Intermission
• Woody Harrelson – Zombieland 1&2, Venom, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, The Glass Castle, The Hunger Games, Out of the Furnace, 2012, Battle in Seattle, No Country for Old Men, A Scanner Darkly, Prairie Home Companion, North Country, Edtv, White Men Can’t Jump
• Sam Rockwell – Jojo Rabbit, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Moon, Frost/Nixon, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Christopher Walken – Jersey Boys, Romance and Cigarettes, Catch Me If You Can, Sleepy Hollow, Blast from the Past, Suicide Kings, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Batman Returns, Sarah Plain and Tall, The Deer Hunter
• Abbie Cornish – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Bright Star, Elizabeth the Golden Age, A Good Year
• Gaboury Sidiba – Precious
• Zeljko Ivanek – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, X Men Apocalypse, The Words, In Bruges, Lost, Manderlay, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, Snow Falling on Cedars, Homicide Life on the Street, Ellen Foster, Donnie Brasco
• Why? The cast.
• Seen: 28 May 2023  

Film write Marty (Farrell) is writing a script called Seven Psychopaths, but he only has one psychopath, and he has no idea what the film will be about. His friend Billy (Rockwood) is more than willing to help him with ideas and the writing.

Billy and his partner Hans (Walken) steal dogs and return them to the owners for the reward. Things go badly when they happen to steal the beloved dog of a Mafia leader (Harrelson).

They’re all bonkers as is the film, which I assume it is meant to be.

Oh yeah, there’s a masked man who pops up now and then and shoots bad guys, then tosses the Jack of Diamonds on their corpses.

With this cast, expectations are high, and they don’t disappoint. Sam Rockwell is brilliant.

It’s really quite dreadful. And sad. And hilarious. And totally bizarre. 

4 * of 5