In Bruges

This film can be a hit or miss for people and I can understand why with it being a dark comedy. However for me, I absolutely love it! It's just on the verge of one of my all time top favorited and that's why I gave it a 9. It's hilarious while still sticking to its dark plot; creating moments of great acting and human emotion. This is also a movie you can watch multiple times and still enjoy.

The wittiest script since "All About Eve", combined with deep insights, magnificent performances, brilliant scenery, fine cinematography, excellent music - it's hard to fault this great film. At its core is the superb performance by Colin Farrell, proving yet again that he is one of the finest actors of his generation (check him out in Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream" as well and you'll see what I mean). A perfect blend of comic timing, rough charm and vulnerability - it's a knockout performance. And that's not to diminish the work of Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes or any of the other cast members - even the bit part players are terrific. Best not to say too much about the plot, as it's better to see it with fresh eyes - but Martin McDonagh deserves to be showered with awards for his work as both writer and director (and it's his first feature!). And it's not a bad tourist ad for Bruges either! I hope this film comes up at Oscar time - it truly deserves to.

Clearly this film was influenced by "Pulp Fiction" and "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels." Really funny...I guess some people find humor in the "f-bomb" being dropped and some don't. And with the exception of the remake of "The Ladykillers," I guess I find that to be funny. As others have noted, all the acting performances are great...I happened to think Farrell did the best job, but one could make the successful argument that Gleason and Fiennes did just as good if not better. Great snappy dialogue...had it gone too far, it would have been too over-the-top like in "Juno," but it was reigned in just enough to make it delightful. How any "professional" critics are deriding this film is beyond me. They should be fired from their gig for being so clueless.

Atrocious film-making. Two morons, that by the end we're meant to find adorable, arrive in Bruges for some sinister mission. What follows is basically a hate filled diatribe humiliating gay men (shock horror), dwarfs and women. There's no sophistication in the supposedly brilliant writing. It's the kind of lousy movie that seems to have been inspired by rednecks and writing on toilet walls in pubs. Reading some of the reviews of this film is mind boggling. Most harp on and on about Farrell's redemption but given that this particular element in the script is so utterly unconvincing (Is this what McDonaugh considers irony?) and simply used as a device to validate Farrell's rampant homophobia and misogyny-the result is sickening, not illuminating. Yes, Bruges looks wonderful but who cares when you're watching offensive rubbish of this nature. Painful.

I have to say that i wasn't expecting much from this movie.I thought it will be just another failor of making a good black humor comedy...However i was wrong.This movie is excellent.It's followed by pretty depressive atmosphere which gives even more humor into the movie.Especially when you find out why they've been sent in Bruges(old medieval city). Collin Farrell was great.His acting is great.He did an excellent portrait of depressive,i don't give a damn criminal.Brendan Gleeson is even better an Ralph Fiennes acted this role so strange that you cant recognize him.Good but strange. Anyway i wont write anything else,all i can say that you should watch this movie.If not for the cast than for the movie it self because it's great.Good directing,acting and screenplay are making this movie as good as it is.And it has one of the best endings ever. Enjoy!!!

After watching the film for the third time, I have just read through a number of the comments posted by others here; yes, the struggle with guilt is identified, and the great acting (especially Farrell), and the dark comedy. But has no one else seen an allegory in the film? Early on in the film, Ray & Ken view a painting in a museum, and discuss that it represents Purgatory; the ending takes place in a film shoot of...Purgatory. Principles. Guilt. Hell...prison...or the light above... I just hope that those who see it as merely an addition to the Pulp Fiction genre will 'hear' the depth of the film, if only on a subconscious level. And, the soundtrack is perfect.

After a botched job, two London hit men are sent to Bruges, Belgium to lay low for a while, unaware of what their evil boss has planned for them. A delightful black comedy, highlighted by the witty banter between Farrell and Gleeson, the hit men with contrasting interests. The two actors work well together and Fiennes is hilarious as their quick-tempered boss. The dramatic elements are somewhat weak and don't mesh very well with the comedy, and the last part of the film goes a bit too far with the violence. However, for the most part, this film is quite enjoyable. A remarkable feature film debut for McDonagh, who wrote and directed.

This is one of those awesome films that a viewer will either love or hate...there is no in-between. If you love it, you must have a twisted, wicked sense of humor, an open mind enough to truly appreciate well-written, intelligent dialogue and an imagination that will go along w/a plot that LOOKS like it is two jig-saw puzzles mixed together...until it all comes together brilliantly in the last 30 minutes. Add in a performance from Colin Farrell that is SO different from the arrogant A-type character he usually plays...his "dumb" character is actually funny in this one. At the industry screening here in LA several "older types" walked out early...maybe because of the liberal use of the F-word...but the majority stayed to debate the ending and "why" it had to end the way it did. For those who hated it: you're too stupid to understand an intelligent, thought-provoking film when you see one.

The DVD version of this movie was advertised as a comedy. Maybe the movie should have been advertised as the "Existential exploration of the lives of English murderers in the early 21st century". Or as an "Inquiry into the meaninglessness of life exemplified by three men who commit brutal acts". A comedy it is not. The movie showed the miserable and pointless lives of three hit men, interspersed with ugly scenes of murder. There were some lame jokes on Bruges and Belgium, which did not get better by overuse. The film was slow, presenting an elegiac, not a comedic tempo. Maybe some people find the display of the internal conflicts of hit men funny. I found it -- at least in this movie -- repulsive and nauseating. At the end of the movie I had a bad taste in my mouth that I wouldn't wish on anybody. The acting and the photography were good. Forget the rest.

In Bruges is a simple movie that thrives on the strength of it's writing. Two Hitmen are sent to Bruges to lay low while things cool down from their last job. It's a simple enough story but every interaction, every line of dialogue is just gold here. There's not a bad performance, no lousy special effects, to age it, just great character development and interactions. It's weird at times and I imagine it absolutely wont work for a lot of people, it's very British and very vulgar, but for everyone else this is a simple, no frills movie that's absolutely worth the watch. Also, Colin Farrell is a sneakily good actor when he gets the right role.