In Bruges..... What a sneaky little b*****d!

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2008)

In Bruges came out of absolutely nowhere and put our faith back into the British gangster flick with its fast paced script, amazing acting talents and sheer wittiness.Colin Farrell is slightly underrated in his acting talents but mainly due to the fact his acting CV consists of roles in slightly terrible films (Daredevil for one) but to deny this man his praise for his portrayal of Ray in this film would be nothing short of a disgrace. Holed up in a the shitty little town of Bruges after a hit goes wrong you can see that the character of Ray is too large for such a small town. Brendan Gleeson brings us one of the best characters I've seen him play in a long time as Ken the professional hit-man acting more along the lines of a father figure to Ray. In Bruges is one of the freshest pieces of British cinema i've witnessed since Sexy Beast and we all know the two main reasons that film was fantastic but in this the angry English hit-man/gangster type role is left to the ever great Ralph Fiennes playing Harry, who's psychotic and ruthless persona sets up for a fantastic villain. Kudos to Farrell, Gleeson and Fiennes for bringing us such an a brilliant piece of film and to the director for making one of the best British flicks of 2008.