There will be blood!(Too much!)

Rating: 2/10 (26 March 2008)

'Martin McDonough's 'In Bruges' with the dream casting of Colin Farrell, and Brendan Gleeson, as bumbling hit-man, and seasoned hit-man who flee to the beautiful city of the title after Farrell botches a hit,
the pair take in all the sights the beautiful city has to offer, the rest of the film chronicles Farrells wayward romance with a beautiful drug dealer who supplies film crews with drugs, there is an amusing subplot which Farrell befriends a diminutive actor who is making a 'eurotrash' film on location, the villain of this film is Ralph Fiennes who literary phones in his performance, his role is very like a take off of Sir Ben Kingsley in ' Sexy Beast' Gleeson receives orders to take do away with his protégé, but failing to do so only incurs the wrath of Fiennes,who travels to Bruges for an overtly bloody shootout,
The downside to this film is the 'overuse' of strong language which is evidently used in a conversation with Ralph Fiennes and Gleeson it's usage is akin to a swearing contest! how many times do we have to hear the dreaded 'C***' word uttered? in the space of one minute almost twelve! one of the 'funny moments' which at least tries for laughs is Farrell's berating of an obese American family who are offended by his remarks regarding their weight! the scene is amateurish in it's staging and would best suit the cutting room floor, or deleted scene section on the DVD. Unfortunately the 'shoot em up' climax is marred with a downbeat 'shoot em up 'climax which feature some of the most realistic gunshot wounds ever committed to celluloid Sam Peckinpah would be proud! gore-hounds will not be disappointed with the liberal overuse of blood and gore which seem left over from a previous film albeit of an Eli Roth nature( witness Brendan Gleeson fall from the tower a bit over the top, but nevertheless very well done) I was reasonably entertained by this but feel that the filmmakers could of toned down the content instead of going all the way to 'eleven' Gorehounds will be pleased everyone else will probably have a sour taste in their mouths. for a better buddy,buddy pairing there's '48 Hrs' 'Midnight Run'