A good movie

Back in 2004, Martin McDonagh made quite an impact with his directing debut with ‘In Bruges’ and, now it is the turn of his brother John Michael McDonagh to come up with this directing debut and it was once again a critical success. First of all, it is pretty easy to make the connection with those 2 movies since they are both filled with Irish characters with especially Brendan Gleeson playing the lead in both movies but, actually, a part from that, I thought that those flicks were completely different. I mean, once again, Gleeson really stole the show and I thought it was seriously hilarious and easily the funniest movie that came up in 2011 (yeah I wasn’t really impressed by ‘Bridesmaids’). Indeed, the dialogs were just great and continuously spot on. Furthermore, the messed up relationship between Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle was pure gold as well and it’s too bad they didn’t spend more time together. So, it was really good but, still, it was missing something to become truly remarkable. My main issue was probably the fact that, even though the characters and dialogs were very well written, the story was not really strong, I’m afraid. Still, there was a lot to enjoy here and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10