With so many ideas and a cross section of different narratives all rolled into one, seven psychopaths should not be as good as it is. But thanks to a witty script, fantastic performances all round, Martin McDonagh (director of the fabulous In Bruges) has brought together a triumph of a film and one of the best black comedy's I have ever seen.
As the title suggests, the film is set around seven different characters, with struggling screenwriter Marty (Colin Farrell) at the center of the film. Marty soon finds himself entangled into the criminal underworld when one of his friends Hans (Christopher Walken) steals Charlie's (Woody Harrelson) Shih Tzu. Joining along for the ride is Marty's best friend, and the star of the show Billy (Sam Rockwell).
Different psychopaths are introduced, some real while others are pieces of fiction included in a screenplay which Marty is writing, subsequently called Seven psychopaths. Some of these characters are more obscure than others, those including a fictional Vietcong veteran from My Lai, and a couple (Tom Waits included) who kill for no reason at all.
At one hour and fifty minutes long some will find the pace of the film slow at times, and perhaps a little bit incoherent, as the film switches between reality and fantasy. But this is overlooked by the wonderful dialogue between the different characters, and the actions they take in the confrontations they have.
As the film develops all of the different Psychopaths stories come into one full circle, with an ending that is both clever and satisfactory. Where other films might struggle, seven psychopath succeeds because it makes the audience want to know and care where the film is taking us. It takes rather cliched characters and set pieces, and turns them on their head into caricatures of what we might expect from other movies.
Verdict- 4/5
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