In Bruges

Pan in on a sun filled view of a bridge crossing over into an architecturally diamond of a town which is magnificently beautiful yet unfamiliar to many called Bruges. Place Colin Farrell as a boyishly shy and strikingly handsome assassin who hates Bruges along with his bubbly savoring sight seeing cohort Brendan Gleeson. Then toss in a most hysterical yet drab controlling and humanely emotionless boss Ralph Fiennes and we have the 3 central characters. But wait, let's not forget the dwarf in his school boy attire as well as a sexy secretive blonde who catches Colin's eye as much as the river roadways catches Brendan's. What we have is a dryly humored plot with such laughs and heartbreakingly sad twists and turns that ends with...

You wouldn't want me to give away the whole story now...would you? I won't.

I first downloaded it from I-Tunes but needed to see it on our large screen TV so I bought it from Amazon. I must say I love packaging as well as having the dvd to bring over friend's homes to watch. "...ain't nothing like the real thing baby..." You'll watch it again and again.

If you love Colin Farrell you must see:
Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

If you adore Brendan Gleeson you'll adore him in:
Black Irish

If you think Ralph Fiennes is also fantastic see:
Red Dragon - Collector's Edition

and its hilarious at bits but unfortunately the ending is predictable and ralph fiennes (an excellent actor see 'the quiz show') seems like he is just impersonating ben kingsly's charachter from sexy beast. theres no deeper meaning here that would warrant repeated viewings, definately a rent!

Those expecting typical hollywood action/comedy should look elsewhere. This is a highly entertaining film with some funny moments, but not a feel good movie.

I saw a trailer for this movie which made it look like a very funny dark comedy and on the DVD cover it has these reviews saying how funny it is but it's actually a boring black comedy. Not too much really happens through most of the film except for the 2 hitmen touring around Bruges and getting into some minor situations and then their boss goes their to kill one of them for accidentaly shooting a kid. There is almost no action except for a little chase scene on foot towards the end which would've been okay if the dialoge would have been better. There are a few funny lines here and there through the movie but not that many and I mostly chuckled and only laughed outloud once or maybe twice also they talk pretty low so I had to turn it up loud. The only really good thing was the scenery of Bruges which is very nice.

I wouldn't recommend this but I do recommend seeing the trailer because it had most of the funny parts in it and you get to miss out on all the boring stuff.

I do not normally publish reviews about the dvd's I watch. This one however left me wanting someone had warned me about it.
It is sad that good actors such as R. Fiennes would lend themselves to act in such a film. A tragic waste of a couple of hours...