Seven Psychopaths
2012
*
Director: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Waits, Brendan Sexton III, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, Željko Ivanek, Linda Bright Clay
Struggling screenwriter has a snappy title, Seven Psychopaths, but no story. However, he is about to get inspired by some real-life psychopaths. Martin McDonagh follows up In Bruges with another awful dark crime comedy. Like Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation, this is a smug and self-referential story about the mechanics of storytelling, which attempts to excuse its clichéd plotting and weak female characters by pointing them out. McDonagh's message is that everybody thinks they have a movie in them, but nobody seems to have an original story to tell, which perfectly sums up his own work. These are some of the dullest 110 minutes I can remember.
