worst movie in a long time

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2008)

Yes indeed, the worst I have seen in a long time. In that respect it is a classic. Every mistake a director can make is made in this one. Martin McDonagh should not be allowed to make cinema-movies, and he should stick to short ones. Bad acting, bad dialog, bad story, bad choice of music, silly humor, badly performed slapstick. All the characters seem out of place, even a minor character like the usher in the church tower or the landlady in the hotel.
It starts off in a hotel hide-out where two hire-killers have a casual conversation, when one of them strikes a subject the other does not wish to have mentioned, his killing of a child. The way this is brought up is a give-away to the bad acting throughout the movie, and it continues to be bad and it never stops. I was even horrified at the slap-stick moment with the fat American tourist-character. Why and how did the director decide to put in such a scene at all? The acting-out in the restaurant with the Canadian tourist? If this was supposed to be funny, then, apart from the terrible performance by Colin Farrell, where am I supposed to start and stop laughing? I can continue but I will not.
You think while watching that Brendan Gleeson will at some point make up for the others complete failure to be plausible, but no. It brought tears to my eyes to think of the producers, who will probably be sick till today.