I have decided that I just don't like Martin McDonagh's movies. Granted, this is only the second one I've seen but I hated both of them. Seven Psychopaths is slightly funnier than In Bruges but that's like saying gonorrhea is less deadly than syphilis. They're both horrible.Marty (Colin Farrell) is a writer struggling to come up with a plot for his new screenplay when he gets involved in his buddy Billy's (Sam Rockwell) scheme of kidnapping dogs for reward money. Billy took a Shih Tzu belonging to gangster Charlie (Woody Harrelson) and Charlie wants his dog back by any means.
Sam Rockwell is the best part of this film by a long margin. Again, that's not saying much and it's certainly not a reason to actually watch it but he is. The movie strives to be as meta as possible, even going so far as to have Christopher Walken's character say something about how all the female parts are terrible. And they are. Which means one of two scenarios occurred while writing:
1) Martin McDonagh intentionally wrote horrible parts for all female characters in this movie just so he could make that joke or
2) Someone gave him that feedback during a draft review and he thought "ha, that's funny" and wrote it in.
Either way, it's a dick move considering he hired actresses like Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko, and Gadbourey Sidibe and then gave them almost nothing to do.
Don't give your home theater The Clap. Don't watch Seven Psychopaths.
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