SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS - Review

Seven Psychopaths

Dark Comedy, 2012

1 hour, 40 minutes

Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh

Starring
Colin Farrell
Sam Rockwell
Christopher Walken
Woody Harrelson
Tom Waits
Abbie Cornish
Olga Kurylenko
Linda Bright Clay
Želijko Ivanek
Long Nguyen

"What, are we making French movies now? That sounds like the stupidest ending. No shoot-outs? That sounds like the stupidest ending I've ever fucking... NO SHOOT-OUTS?!"

Seven Psychopaths makes me sad. Way back in the fall, there was a pretty sizable advertisement campaign for this thing. Bus stops and posters were all over the city... at least, where I was walking there was. So why am I so sad?
Because Seven Psychopaths is the kind of movie that gets fairly good hype but nobody goes to see it, and then everybody regrets it.
And they should, because Seven Psychopaths is one damn good movie.
If you like movies where they say the title of the movie all the time, then you'll probably love this movie. Hollywood screenwriter Marty (Colin Farrell) struggles to write his next big movie, except he's got the title down... wanna guess what it is?
Yep. He's writing Seven Psychopaths. And in his quest to come up with all seven of his psychopaths, he gets into quite a bit of trouble when his dog-kidnapping friend Billy (Sam Rockwell) steals the shih tzu of a powerful mafia leader (Woody Harrelson) and, needless to say, Marty finds his psychopaths.
It sounds a little absurd, but that's what makes this film so spectacular. It's just so fucking absurd. Then again, that's what writer/director Martin McDonagh specializes in. The writing is incredibly sharp and darkly hilarious. The screenplay is only made better by way of brilliant performances by the cast, in particular Sam Rockwell, who is absolutely astounding as the most psychotic psychopath of the bunch.
As I said before, this movie is absolutely absurd. The absurdity moves from the subtly of Marty trying to find his seven psychopaths for his movie (creating a Buddhist psychopaths, who becomes an Amish psychopath, then becomes a Quaker psychopath) to Woody Harrelson's obsession to find his beloved pooch.
But the real highlight of the movie comes from Sam Rockwell's astounding monologue, which, in my opinion, is the FUNNIEST MOVIE MOMENT OF 2012. Yes, this one scene alone is probably funnier than anything in 21 Jump Street.
What else is there to say? Christopher Walken is hilarious. It isn't quite as good as In Bruges, but this movie definitely leaves me wanting more from Martin McDonagh.
And if you ask me, Sam Rockwell deserves a fucking Oscar nomination. Honestly. I can't be the only person who believes that. What an underrated actor, seriously.

9.5/10

PS - I wrote this fucker at 3am and I didn't proofread, so apologies for anything if I fucked up with spelling or whatever. Lemme know and I'll edit it.