Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 194
Fresh: 159 | Rotten: 35
Seven Psychopaths delivers sly cinematic commentary while serving up a heaping helping of sharp dialogue and gleeful violence.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 12
Seven Psychopaths delivers sly cinematic commentary while serving up a heaping helping of sharp dialogue and gleeful violence.
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Marty (Farrell) is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay, "Seven Psychopaths". Billy (Rockwell) is Marty's best friend, an unemployed actor and part time dog thief, who wants to help Marty by any means necessary. All he needs is a little focus and inspiration. Hans (Walken) is Billy's partner in crime. A religious man with a violent past. Charlie (Harrelson) is the psychopathetic gangster whose beloved dog, Billy and Hans have just stolen. Charlie's unpredictable, extremely
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Cast
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Colin Farrell
Marty -
Christopher Walken
Hans -
Sam Rockwell
Bill, Billy -
Woody Harrelson
Charlie -
Olga Kurylenko
Angela -
Tom Waits
Zachariah -
Abbie Cornish
Kaya -
Zeljko Ivanek
Paulo -
Gabourey Sidibe
Sharice -
Bonny
Bonny -
Michael Pitt
Larry -
Michael Stuhlbarg
Tommy -
Linda Bright Clay
Myra -
Harry Dean Stanton
Man in Hat -
James Hebert
Killer -
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Kevin Corrigan
Dennis -
Brendan Sexton III
Young Zachariah -
Amanda Warren
Maggie -
John Bishop
The Butcher -
Richard Wharton
The Hippy -
Johnny Bolton
Barman -
Helena Mattsson
Blonde Lady -
Christopher Gehrman
Cellmate -
Christian Barillas
Catholic Priest -
Long Nguyen
Vietnamese Priest -
Christine Marzano
The Hooker -
Frank Alvarez
Hispanic Guy -
Ronnie Gene Blevins
First Cop -
Tai Chan Ngo
Fellow Monk -
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McDonagh is less saturated in film and pop culture than Tarantino and less prone than Kaufman to disappear down story wormholes.
Top CriticThe kind of messy, absurdist movie that can lift you out of a crappy mood-at least for a while.
This is one of the best times I've had at the movies in years.
All this narrative nesting and genre-skipping sounds very cerebral on the page, but in practice, Seven Psychopaths is as pleasurably kinetic as can be, full of double-crosses and gunplay and sun-kissed SoCal locations.
Each time it appears that McDonagh, who also directed, has written himself into a cul de sac, he off-roads the movie (sometimes literally) into fresh territory.
Yes, it's a lot to keep track of, but writer-director Martin McDonagh does so with deft humor as the film hurls toward a desert climax, foreshadowed in one of Billy and Marty's exchanges.
Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths is a sharp piece of fun that both pokes at the current climate of filmmaking while also adding its own brand of humor to the mix.
Seven Psychopaths doesn't knuckle down and decide how to answer everything tossed out for consideration, but even when it feels like little more than intellectual, postmodern spitballing, it satisfies as an exercise in storytelling.
If it doesn't quite match In Bruges in terms of total success, it's still potent enough to indicate that McDonagh managed to dodge the dreaded sophomore slump.
Though it seems derivative at times, it's offbeat, it's violent, it's well written, and it's well acted.
Martin McDonagh's blood-drenched, dully self-referential hodgepodge of a crime film looks great with Sony's extraordinary A/V transfer, but the package offers only crumbs in the extras department.
This is a film with a lot of interesting elements to it, but sadly it just never comes together. I wouldn't go as far as saying that it's a mess, but the structure of it could have used a bit of an overhaul.
The sense that the different elements don't really add up to much may well leave some feeling cold; for others, the sharp dialogue and comic beats will produce a similar fondness for the characters that In Bruges' best scenes did.
Another gleefully dark comedy thriller from In Bruges creator Martin McDonagh featuring gabby killers, scabrously funny dialogue and moments of shocking violence.
McDonagh achieves the tricky feat of balancing cleverness, carnage, and compassion.
...the moment to moment of the unparalleled craziness that experimental narrative, character dexterity and into the depths of McDonagh's necessary second album psychosis.
Mostly the ruthless black humour is sustained, and occasionally some genuine emotion can creep in and touch our hearts.
...an entertainingly erratic effort...
At times, the galloping absurdity drifts into off-the-peg comedy gangster cliché. But McDonagh's brilliant way with one-liners always claws back enough ground to stifle any groans.
Martin McDonagh gleefully plays with both the gang thriller genre and the moviemaking process with this enjoyably absurd action comedy. It's a little self-indulgent, acknowledging how difficult he found it to follow up his acclaimed film In Bruges.
There's not much point to a meta-film once the actual film has ceased to grip.
[A] black comedy loaded with some fabulous, all-American visual touches.
[B]ursting with equal parts exasperation, despair, cultural criticism, and black comedy...
McDonagh has enough ideas for six films, but with them all crammed into one, the effect of each is lost.
Too much is so clever-clever that it borders on the stupid.
It loses its way after a while but the performances are excellent and there's some jaunty dialogue.
Audience Reviews for Seven Psychopaths
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The heavily self referential plot concerns an alcoholic Irish screenwriter struggling through writer's block named Marty. His latest effort, "Seven Psychopaths" isn't even past the first page. His best friend Billy is an out of work actor who spends most of his time involved with a dog-napping scam with his buddy Hans who is quite religious, but also has a violent past. Billy tries his hardest to give Marty inspiration, but when he and Hans capture the beloved dog of crime boss Charlie, Marty finds himself caught up in their mess. While it could be a dire thing, it might also be just the inspiration he's been needing.
The film is essentially sort of about itself, and it shares a lot in common with stuff like Barton Fink, but especially Adaptation. However, this doesn't have the brilliance of either of those two, and is mostly a muddled and incoherent darkly comedic romp that satirizes mob movie/psycho thriller conventions.
It is very entertaining, and I dug the pitch black humor, but I also found it hard to really get deeply invested. It's as if McDonagh had a good idea, but then didn't really know what to do with it.
What saves the film, ultimately are the over-the-top violence, and the solid performances from a very well-known ensemble cast. I mean, we get Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, and Woody Harrelson in all the major roles, as well as appearances from Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko, Gabourey Sidibe, Kevin Corrigan, and Harry Dean Stanton.
The film is a mess, but it's fun while it lasts, even if it really doesn't add up to much.
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- Marty: I don't have a drinking problem. I just like drinking.
- Billy: Of course you do, Marty. One: You're a writer. Two: You're from Ireland. It's part of your heritage. You're fucked!
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- Hans: Five hundred bucks, baby! A blonde lady with a big fat basset hound.
- Myra: When you gonna get a job that ain't just stealing from folks, Hans?
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- Hans: You're the one who thought psychopaths were so interesting! They get kind of tiresome after a while, don't you think?
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- Bill: Art and peace and all that shit can wait
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- Hans: I know you said dream sequences are for fags but I think it could work y'know we all gotta dream don't we?
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- Hans: I know you said dream sequences are for fags but I think it could work y'know we all gotta dream don't we?
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Foreign Titles
- 7 Psychos (DE)
- 7 Psychopathes (FR)
