Hans: As Gandhi said....
Billy: Oh, you two..if it ain't for Gandhi....Jesus Christ....
Hans: An eye for eye leaves the whole world blind and I believe that whole-heartedly
Billy: No it doesn't. There would be one guy left with one eye. How's the last blind guy gona take out the eye of the last guy left? he's still got one eye...all that guy has to do is run away and hide behind a bush. Gandhi was wrong. Just that nobody's got the balls to come out and say it
Marty (Colin Farell) is a struggling writer who has hit a writer's block after deciding the title of his script -Seven Psychopaths. He drinks more often than he writes and doesn't want to follow all stereotypes regarding psychopaths. His would be a movie about a Buddhist psychopath and there would be no violence in the movie. Billy (Sam Rockwell) is an unemployed actor who is also a part-time dog-thief. Billy tries to help him out with his script and publishes an ad for all psychopaths that'd give his friend some interesting ideas.
The movie's story revolves around the dog of a hip gangster, Charlie (Woody Harrelson) who is kidnapped by Billy. As the movie progresses, we are introduced to each of the seven psychopaths and the stories about them. As things get messier, the script for Marty's movie also plays itself out (probably the concept was taken from Kaufman's Adaptation).
The dialogues are dark and witty and may not work well for someone who doesn't have a taste for such subject matter. The cast was perfect, specially Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson are the two perfect fits to play psychos. Though Christopher Walken (Hans) doesn't disappoint too. After the scene where his wife gets shot, his complete lack of emotion speaks a lot for his character. After the brilliant In Bruges, Martin McDonagh has once again teamed up with Colin Farell to come up with another dark comedy that has shades of Tarantino and Guy Ritchie in it. A must-watch for all psycho lovers.
Rating: 7.5/10
P.S. - This movie doesn't really fit the bill for my blog, but I felt even Marty deserved a mention.
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