Director Martin McDonaugh’s difficult second album, Seven Psychopaths is the Irish
Director’s follow up to the 2008 sleeper hit In Bruges. The massively disjointed plot concerns a screenwriter
called Martin (Colin Farrell) and his inability to complete his latest script
which he has titled Seven Psychopaths.
His writing is hampered by a drink problem and his disruptive friend Billy (Sam
Rockwell), a dog kidnapper. One day Billy and his friend Hans (Christopher
Walken) kidnap a dog belonging to gangster Charlie Costello (Woody Harrelson).
Martin’s script begins to take shape as he encounters more and more psychopaths
but the three friends end up on the run while trying to escape the Mob.
I’ve been looking forward to Seven Psychopaths for a long time and when I first saw the trailer
a few months back I instantly watched it again because I loved it so much. It’s
with a heavy heart then that now having seen the film I have to report that
it’s a bit, average. There are some clever ideas in there and some great little
vignettes but on the whole there is far too much going on. Several times I
thought to myself “That would make a good movie” but then it was dropped
instantly. Despite several good performances, some great direction and a few
funny moments I left feeling underwhelmed.
