Shoot first. Sightsee later.

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2012)

In Bruges is moderately fair as a nutty character study, but overly far-fetched once the action kicks in. Two Irish hit men (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) get up to no good after being sent to the Belgian city of Bruges.
The film is a darkly comic, scabrously witty farce that takes a puerile glee in being casually offensive. The result is great fun, until it starts taking itself seriously. But it's a laugh-out-loud dark comedy. In Bruges was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2009 but lost to Milk. In the same year, it won the Irish Film and Television Awards for Best International Film.