British Dark Humor at Best

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2008)

The Irish hit-men Ken (Brendan Gleeson) and Ray (Colin Farrell) are sent by the Londoner mobster Harry Waters (Ralph Fiennes) to Bruges, a medieval Belgium city, in Christmas after an awry job in London. Ray, in his first assignment, was sent to murder a priest (Ciarán Hinds) in a church, and he accidentally shot also a boy on the head. While Ken enjoys the historic city, Ray, who is in inner conflict due to the death of the boy, feels completely bored and misses his home town. Ray meets the smalltime drug-dealer and crook Chloë (Clémence Poésy), who sells drug to the cast and crew of a movie that is being filmed in Bruges, and has an incident with a Canadian tourist and later with Chloë's boyfriend. Meanwhile Harry, who has an stringent code of principles, orders Ken to kill his protégée and friend Ray.
"In Bruges" is a dramatic and violent comedy with the famous British dark humor at best. The flawed characters are charismatic and weird: two hit-men, one of them living an existential crisis; a mobster kingpin with a code of principles; a drug-dealer; an American dwarf star of an Euro-trash movie; a clumsy crook; a stressed Canadian tourist are the lead components of this sarcastic story, associated to witty dialogs, with many jokes and irony, and unusual situations. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Na Mira do Chefe" ("In the Aim of the Boss")
Note: On August 2013, I visited the lovely Bruges and I agree with Ken: it is a beautiful town. On 08 September 2013, I saw this movie again.