Seven Psychopaths is one of those movies that I had a hard time following it. It does contain some Tarantino-esque flavor that Reservoir Dogs or Get Shorty entails.
The difference between those two movies and Seven Psychopaths is Reservoir Dogs and Get Shorty provide a delightful backdrop into the planning, rehearsing, and execution of the heist or writing a screenplay for a heist as it happens.
This movie......I don't know. Sure they offered a delightful cast of different Psychopathic Killers they were bringing into the fold but it just kept going on in different directions that after awhile I kept playing Who's on first with this film. With so many interesting cast of killers being introduced and so many different situations they kept putting their killers in I kept asking "How do they all relate to the general flow of the story"? "What's the significance behind the creation of the Seven Psychopaths story?" "Are these killers are all based on different aspects of their personality or are they just writing this story because they are bored?"
I honestly kept pleading with the filmmaker saying "will someone please throw me a friggin bone here because I'm just about ready to pull the plug on this one".
Sure it had some good laughs with some wonderful comedic relief by Sam Rockwell
and yeah it seemed like the creation of the Seven Psychopaths
were going to result in a string of premeditated murders like something out of Natural Born Killers but no.
Director Martin McDonagh is too mean enough to give us a story as simple as that.
Honestly by the end of the 20 min mark you're attention span is almost shot and this movie has already lost control of its self. It looses control of its narrative , contains mindless situations that just go on and on on, and it gets as old as your Grandma's feet.
Some suggest that this story was based on Director's McDonagh's own experiences of becoming a writer in the Hollywood biz but we couldn't get anything like that delivered on the screen now could we.
So to unravel this mess let's go back to the beginning. The story is about Collin Farrell who stars as Marty, a struggling screenwriter, whose got this hot idea about writing a movie about Psychopaths but needs help retooling it to have a more dramatic quality to it.
His friend Billy played by Sam Rockwell is an unemployed actor suggest that to get more inspiration to dive into the psychopathic mind why not meet one so they hook up with the bunny rabbit lover Zachariah played by Tom Waits.
So Billy and his friend Hans played by Christopher Walken come up with a scam to steal rich people's dogs , return them back later for the reward
, even if it means ripping off one of a wiseguy Gangster played by Woody Harrelson whose out for their blood.
Even we have that figured out it still doesn't answer the question Who are the Seven Psychopaths ?
Wouldnit it be better to re-write it as the Three DogNatchKateers writing their own collection of tales based on their puppy snatching thefts and taking anyone out who gets in their way. This approach would have made it a lot gorier than it already is but at least we could understand what the darn movie was about.
All that follows next is nothing but a mishmash of Tarnatino meets Dexter with tales of Serial Killers killing Serial Killers .
Instead of us going "A-Ha" Martin McDonoagh makes us say "UHHHH........UHHH! SAY NA NA,NA, SAY NA NA NA!". We then get caught up in a violent whirl storm of laborious dialogue, scenes, that we end up clicking our heels saying "there is no place like home, there is no place like home".
Honestly, I'll sleep on this one.
FINAL RATING: 0/5
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