'Tis a six

Rating: 6/10 (8 October 2014)

I hate films that use midgets to make a point. It's something about midgets.
This is pretty good, although the absence of laughs felt awkward.
What's with Colin Farrell's eyebrows? Like wind-wipers with a jammed motor.
I would have enjoyed the contrast between his character and Gleeson's if they both had different philosophies. So the scene in the blood chapel was the crucial bit, but there was nothing outside their selfish concerns.
I thought Bruges & Brueghel would inform the characters, maybe set a pattern for them to break, but the actors just reacted to each other like father and son.
The love interest was pointless. The film-within had potential, but it just served what turned out to be a melodrama.
Fiennes was good as an east-end gangster, but the best performer was Luke Kelly (bell-tower scene):
"- On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue; I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way, And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day."