In Bruges (2008)

Director: Martin McDonagh

Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes

More Info: IMDB

Tagline: Shoot first. Sightsee later.

Plot: Holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, two hit men begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs.



My Rating: 8/10

Would I watch it again? Does Ralph Fiennes pronounce his name funny?

Here's a nice little sleeper surprise. I saw the poster for it at the theater but never saw a trailer. I'd heard good things about it but it wasn't until I heard that Fiennes played a cockney gangster that the deal was sealed. And now it's out on DVD. IN BRUGES walks a fine line from being a serious gangster drama to a light-hearted game of cat and mouse. It sometimes feels like a lighter version of SEXY BEAST (2000) (and if you haven't seen this one then you're missing one of the best British gangster films of the past 20 years with a performance by Ben Kingsley as one of the meanest mother fuckers in screen history). It does seem a bit too silly a couple of times and Ralph's character telegraphs some foreshadowing way too early but despite all of that it's a good, quaint little gangster story filmed in the beautiful Belgian town of Bruges (pronounced Broozch).