I'd heard some good stuff about this, but this trailer makes me really want to see it. Reminds me of Lock, Stock & Snatch, which can only be good.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809826831/video

"If I'd grown up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruge might impress me."

i saw the trailer before cloverfield and didn't think it looked that great, but i guess i would consider renting it if it got good reviews.

I'm thinking it's a rent too.

from the look of it, the only thing redeeming about this movie is brendan gleeson.

It definitely looks like it'll be good, in the vein of a Lock, Stock or Snatch, but the trailer for Smokin' Aces looked good, too. And that turned out to be a shitbomb.

I like the city. It has a this strange, trapped in the past feel to it. And it has some of the best damn ice cream in the milky way galaxy. But I don't know if I'll like the movie, what's his face...Colin Ferrel, is a real hit or miss actor for me.

That's my main concern.

Fuckin hillarious movie! Ray Fiennes and Colin Ferrell do awesome work in this one. Clever dialogue, dark humor, some violence, and midgets all make for a tremendous film. Sorry, dwarves.
It's sorta like Pulp Fiction, the way stories come together, but with less characters...and done in Bruges.
Ebert does a better job at description than I:

In Bruges

Cast & CreditsRay: Colin Farrell
Ken: Brendan Gleeson
Harry: Ralph Fiennes
Chloe: Clemence Poesy
Jimmy: Jordan Prentice

"Focus Features presents a film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. Running time: 107 minutes. Rated R (for strong bloody violence, pervasive language, and some drug use).

By Roger Ebert

You may know that Bruges, Belgium, is pronounced "broozh," but I didn't, and the heroes of "In Bruges" certainly don't. They're Dublin hit- men, sent there by their boss for two weeks after a hit goes very wrong. One is a young hothead who sees no reason to be anywhere but Dublin; the other, older, gentler, more curious, buys a guidebook and announces: "Bruges is the best-preserved medieval city in Belgium!"

So it certainly seems. If the movie accomplished nothing else, it inspired in me an urgent desire to visit Bruges. But it accomplished a lot more than that. This film debut by the theater writer and director Martin McDonagh is an endlessly surprising, very dark, human comedy, with a plot that cannot be foreseen but only relished. Every once in a while you find a film like this, that seems to happen as it goes along, driven by the peculiarities of the characters.

Brendan Gleeson, with that noble shambles of a face and the heft of a boxer gone to seed, has the key role as Ken, one of two killers for hire. His traveling companion and unwilling roommate is Ray (Colin Farrell), who successfully whacked a priest in a Dublin confessional but tragically killed a little boy in the process. Before shooting the priest, he confessed to the sin he was about to commit. After accidentally killing the boy, he reads the notes the lad made for his own confession. You don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Ken and Ray work for Harry, apparently a Dublin crime lord, who for the first two thirds of the movie we hear only over the phone, until he materializes in Bruges and turns out to be a worried-looking Ralph Fiennes. He had the men hiding out in London, but that wasn't far enough away. Who would look for them in Bruges? Who would even look for Bruges? Killing the priest was business, but "blowing a kid's head off just isn't done."

The movie does an interesting thing with Bruges. It shows us a breathtakingly beautiful city, without ever seeming to be a travelogue. It uses the city as a way to develop the characters. When Ken wants to climb an old tower "for the view," Ray argues "why do I have to climb up there to see down here? I'm already down here." He is likewise unimpressed by glorious paintings, macabre sculptures and picturesque canals, but is thrilled as a kid when he comes upon a film being shot.

There he meets two fascinating characters: First he sees the fetching young blond Chloe (Clemence Poesy, who was Fleur Delacour in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"). Then he sees Jimmy (Jordan Prentice), a dwarf who figures in a dream sequence. He gets off on a bad footing with both, but eventually they're doing cocaine with a prostitute Jimmy picked up and have become friends, even though Ray keeps calling the dwarf a "midget" and having to be corrected.

Without dreaming of telling you what happens next, I will say it is not only ingenious but almost inevitable the way the screenplay brings all of these destinies together at one place and time. Along the way, there are times of great sadness and poignancy, times of abandon, times of goofiness, and that kind of humor that is really funny because it grows out of character and close observation. Farrell in particular hasn't been this good in a few films, perhaps because this time he's allowed to relax and be Irish. As for Gleeson, if you remember him in "The General," you know that nobody can play a more sympathetic bad guy.

Martin McDonagh is greatly respected in Ireland and England for his plays; his first film, a short named "Six Shoooter" starring Gleeson, won a 2006 Oscar. In his feature debut, "In Bruges," he has made a remarkable first film, as impressive in its own way as "House of Games," the first film by David Mamet, who McDonagh is sometimes compared with.

Yes, it's a "thriller," but one where the ending seems determined by character and upbringing rather than plot requirements. Two of the final deaths are, in fact, ethical choices. And the irony inspiring the second one has an undeniable logic, showing that even professional murderers have their feelings. "



I highly recomend this movie. One of Colin's best films ever.

So go see it! NOW!

Looks meh-ish. Saying something is "like Pulp Fiction" isn't usually a good thing.

I keep getting the previews for this one and "The Bank Job" or whatever it's called confused when they come on. Not a good sign.

Just saw this on the weekend.

Hee-lair-eee-ous!

I can't see the Pulp Fiction link. If anything, it's basically The Odd Couple, set in a charming European city, with hitmen.



Bwahahahaha

great movie, one of my favorites this year.

It reminds me a lot of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, humour wise. Kind of a quick humour that a lot of people don't enjoy all that much. It's more of a mix of how they say lines and what the lines themselves are.

this was really good. i've found i don't care for Farrell in american releases as much because his accent sounds so phony, i tend to like his UK character releases a lot better.

You've just inferred that Ireland is part of the UK.

Watch out for Irish assassins.

I saw them film this thing. Haven't seen the movie yet.

That's a ringing endorsement for me. Will have to push this up my Netflix queue.

much darker than kiss kiss bang bang. i was pleasantly surprised here. gleeson is always outstanding, and the acting on the whole was solid. but what set this apart for me was the pacing. there was more pathos than humor, and for me it was kind of refreshing.

the movie could have been your garden variety assassins movie, or gone the way of kiss kiss with glib, fast talking dialogue. instead, it reconciled the two extremes with confident, though sometimes plodding tone.

the real surprise here was farrell; while i don't usually enjoy him, i thought he did a fine job. this is definitely worth checking out.

I was more referring to the humour parts of the movie. Kind of a dark comedy once again (although I agree with the much darker aspect lol). The humour was just kind of subtle and relied on the actors expressions or the way they said something. Instead of quotable lines or something in that sense.

Ralph Fiennes is excellent in his role as well.