Seven Psychopaths Reviews

While most of the movie's deficiencies could be explained away as meta, you're always aware that you're watching a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

On paper, a movie I should love. In practice, like watching two grad students pee on each other for two hours.

Full Review | Original Score: C

It comes off as a big inside joke. And not a very funny one at that.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

There's not much point to a meta-film once the actual film has ceased to grip.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

McDonagh is undoubtedly a very clever man, but with Seven Psychopaths he is interested in nothing more than celebrating his own cleverness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

For about 75 minutes, Seven Psychopaths is a rollicking good movie - kinetic, clever, funny, and brutal. Then, inexplicably, it falls apart.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The violence wears you down. Like one of its nutso characters, "Seven Psychopaths" has a death wish.

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McDonagh has enough ideas for six films, but with them all crammed into one, the effect of each is lost.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The bloody tale of a blocked scriptwriter and a bunch of gangsters is fun to watch (mostly), yet the bold twists and turns of its playful narrative seem to serve no greater purpose other than its own cleverness.

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Self-aware stupidity does not equal wit.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

While his first film, In Bruges was black, fresh and funny, Martin McDonagh's follow up comedy crime caper is less on the mark

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Despite a great cast, a great premise and some great ham acting - a must whenever Christopher Walken walks into frame - the movie's lack of focus keeps it from kicking out of second gear and into the kind of crazy groove it clearly strives for.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Neither funny nor groundbreaking, resulting in a half-baked homage not a fully realized idea. But that may be enough for the target audience.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Too many of its moments of let's-subvert-the-genre seem to leave McDonagh stranded and flailing at just the moment when a Tarantino movie or a Chuck Palahniuk novel is snapping into place.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Ultimately, the experience of watching "Seven Psychopaths" is akin to watching a dog like Bonnie chase its tail: It's only funny until you realize that the running in circles isn't ever really going to stop.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

You might like this film better if you think exploding heads is a funny bit.

Full Review | Original Score: C

So many characters require a deft, experienced hand at the helm and [Martin] McDonagh has not achieved that level of experience, yet.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

One psychopath too many?

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While "Seven Psychopaths" is indeed as crazy as it sounds, it's not nearly as smart as it thinks it is.

Full Review | Original Score: C

"Seven Psychopaths" has to be counted as a disappointment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4