Movie Psychopaths Comedy Review: Seven Psychopaths (2012)

Psychopaths, unique and dangerous, because behind the normal look they have a psychopath is a veiled threat that can threaten your life. They can appear cute and gentle, but they can turn into manipulative beasts, commit criminal acts with no empathy and tolerance. Seven Psychopaths, a British comedy movie that will take you to play with psychopaths. Yes, people, because he has seven psychopaths.

The main conflict is a writer named Marty Faranan (Colin Farrell), is preparing a screenplay with a psychopathic theme, but must appear clean. Yes, look clean, Marty does not want any shooting scenes present in the story later. Billy Bickle (Sam Rockwell), an unemployed actor who now works as a dog thief, intends to help his best friend. Unfortunately Billy made a mistake that destroyed little hope from Marty earlier.

Together with his colleague Hans Kieslowski (Christopher Walken), a religious man who has a criminal record in the past, Billy apparently stole a dog with an unusual owner. Bonny, a Shih Tzu dog, is a beloved dog of a very cruel gangster leader named Charlie Costello (Woody Harrelson). A writer, getting into trouble due to his friend's mistakes, and escaping from cruel men who want their dogs back. This chaos eventually became Marty's inspiration.

Do not underestimate the premise offered by Martin McDonagh in this latest work. Standard indeed if you read the synopsis that he offers. However, McDonagh re-wraps this film as he did to In Bruges, a not-so-glorious synopsis, but managed to make his audience laugh alongside a dark crime story. Yes, McDonagh was once again capable of delivering surprises through his well-formed screenplay, utilizing characters that were not so special.

Opened with two men named Larry (Michael Pitt) and Tommy (Michael Stuhlbarg) who was chatting casually, came a masked man, and dor, they both died with a red diamond card jack beside him. Haha, it was a success for a surprise at the beginning of the story, and created a mystery to the story. Yes, mystery, that's the key to the success of this movie. McDonagh gave me some small, interrelated mysteries, not so easy to unload, but managed to keep inviting me to try to figure out the way out. From jack cards, the intent of short attendance is Zachariah Rigby (Tom Waits) who is an ex-serial killer, to whom exactly the Vietnamese priest who appeared and disappeared.

With the theme of psychopath, this film can appear "crazy". With an unintelligible storyline, effective little mysteries, Seven Psychopaths manages to give me a sensation that I rarely get from a movie of the same theme, an intelligent package that invites laughter. Intelligent, from the way of eliminating every character that really features the characteristic of a psychopath, until the way he ended that managed to uncover the answers of all the mysteries in an elegant way. But, to me the most interesting element of this film is that he is able to get me to ask who I should trust. They seem to try to show you that they are the best amongst others, in a variety of ways, and confuse you to choose who to trust because each is able to look good and not drown from other characters.

Left behind some stains that slightly undermine the success I mentioned above. Once opened nicely, you will get a slow character recognition process. Some parts seem not so important, it should not need to be explained so much detail to create a new mystery on the story. Yes, especially in the middle of the story, the tension feels a bit down for me, disappointing. Then, despite ending in an elegant way, the ending provided fails to at least level with a very interesting opening at the beginning. And the biggest drawback, two female characters who seemed to just be a poster and also the title of the story. What is the role of Abbie Cornish with her character? Olga Kurylenko, intimate scene, then just disappear? Yes, it feels a little deceived indeed, because the initial expectation is obviously seven psychopaths crazy.

Overall, Seven Psychopaths is a satisfying film. Martin McDonagh is still in the standards he has. Again, with the usual premise for me McDonagh formed this film to be interesting through a qualified screenplay. Yes yes, I love how this story comes with a criminal conflict that is captivating with dialogue and psycho behavior. Assisted by the cast who managed to make his character look attractive, this film just feels a little fall in some parts. Like the chart, it opens at 8.5, then drops to 7 in the middle of the story, and unfortunately fails to level as it did when it started.

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