Seven Psychopath (2012)

Seven Psychopath (2012)

 

8/10

 Starring

Colin Farrell

Sam Rockwell

Woody Harrelson

Christopher Walken

 

Directed by Martin McDonagh

 

Seven Psychopaths gives you a feeling like you're watching a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it’s not. This movie is the brainchild of Martin McDonagh. He wrote and directed this masterpiece, and contained in it are characters that are memorable, developing before your eyes. Each one has their own deep, dark past, and we watch them crawl to the surface. The characters engage in deep dialogue with one another, and the sharp exchanges unveil dark truths about each person, making you realize this movie has some of the best dialogue I’ve seen in years.

The movie is bloody, violent, and filled with numerous comedic undertones. My love for Christopher Walken brought me to see this, and his character delivered. Walken plays Hans, an old Quaker who, at first, starts off trying to navigate a life with his dying wife. We get to see how he navigates living after she dies.

I enjoyed when the big reveal came up, and you see that everything the characters are going through is because one of them is actually a psychopath.

Seven Psychopaths is the name of the script that Marty is working on. Marty (Colin Farrell) is a screenwriter going through some writer’s block. His good friend Billy (Sam Rockwell) is an actor and a part-time dog kidnapper, working with Hans. Billy kidnaps a dog belonging to a gangster named Charlie (Woody Harrelson). Charlie loves his dog and is willing to kill everyone involved in her disappearance.

There’s also a character running around in the movie killing bad guys—a serial killer of killers.

Billy wants Marty to finish his screenplay and suggests ideas as often as he can. When Charlie tracks down the dog kidnappers, his men capture Hans and force him to take them to his and Billy’s hideout. There, Hans meets Marty for the first time. Hans is unaware that Billy stole a dog from Charlie and stands his ground, ready to die rather than give up Billy. Marty, on the other hand, would rather not; he’s about to sell out Billy’s location when the killer of killers shows up and kills the men holding the two at gunpoint.

The three meet up and discuss the situation, but Charlie gets angry and takes it personally when he kills someone close to the three. The three decide to run to the desert for a while to think about how to handle the situation. There, we get to know more about them—and much more than we could care to know.

I had no idea about this movie’s existence until I saw a clip of Walken refusing to put his hands up on TikTok. I used that info to track down this movie, and I’m glad I did.

Awesome, magnificent, and worth watching any day.