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In Bruges

6 Ratings: 3.5
Action & Adventure and Comedy movie directed by Martin McDonagh

The considerable pleasures ofIn Brugesbegin with its title, which suggests a glumly self-important art film but actually fits a rattling-good tale of two Irish gangsters "keepin' a low profile" after a murder gone messily wrong. Bruges, the best-preserved … see full wiki

Director: Martin McDonagh
Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure
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review by . June 14, 2012
posted in Movie Hype
**** out of ****    Alfred Hitchcock once deemed it unwise to kill either a child or a dog in a movie. Well, this logic seems to have been abandoned, until now. Martin McDonagh's "In Bruges" has characters that seem to live by the words of the big man himself; starting with Ray (Collin Farrell), a hitman crippled by the guilt of having just recently killed a little boy in an accident. He was assigned to kill a priest, and so he did, but a few of the bullets evaded the target …
review by . November 23, 2009
posted in Movie Hype
After bungling their latest job, two London-based hitmen are sent to the much quieter city of Bruges, Belgium to await instruction. Ray is a cocky young gun, who can't relax and can't stand Bruges and can't wait to get away. Ken is older and wiser, and wishes he could stay longer to take in the atmosphere and history of this medieval city. Of course, initial impressions of this odd couple turn out to be incomplete, and things aren't going to work out quite like anyone wants, and the quaint city …
review by . September 21, 2009
... but I laughed out loud at the conscience-stricken killer's suggestion that it was a circle closer to Hell than Bruges. When I laugh out loud at a film I'm watching by myself -- and I did laugh out loud more than once -- that film automatically gets my five-star rating.    I'm not gonna waste a lot of college-seminar training on an exegesis of this flick. I take it to be a spoof of the genre, a totally tongue-in-cheek satire of fashionable amorality. Some reviewers have compared …
review by . August 26, 2008
Two hit men, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are on a sort of makeshift holiday in Bruges, Belgium after a hit gone wrong. While awaiting word from their boss, Harry (Ralph Fiennes), Ken is interested in sightseeing and the history of the place, while Ray couldn't be more unimpressed and can't wait to escape.    After hearing so many wonderful things about this film I was absolutely prepared to be let down. Movies rarely live up to the hype for me, but I am happy …
review by . June 26, 2008
Martin McDonagh makes an impressive writing and directing debut with the very fresh and entertaining and surprisingly well rounded film IN BRUGES. Though the basic storyline is rather simple, McDonagh knows how to keep it turning and twisting with generous amounts of humor as well as probing character development. He has assembled a cast of very fine actors, turned the cinematography of the gorgeous Belgian city of Bruges over to the capable creative hands of Eigil Bryld, and finished his project …
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