Too slow for a hit man movie, not enough laughs for a good black comedy.

Rating: 5/10 (12 January 2011)

Two hit men are stuck in Bruges, Belgium- one loves the place and the other hates it. They tour the beautiful medieval scenery, meet a girl and a midget, do drugs, have some fights, some funny/stupid conversations and eventually there is a shootout. If that sounds kind of boring than you have an accurate idea of what the movie's like- kind of boring with some redeeming qualities: some interesting situations, good acting, some funny dialogue and nice cinematography. The high point by far was the Ralph Fiennes character but he doesn't show up till the movie's half over. At some of the more preposterous action situations, I had to keep reminding myself this was a comedy, or was it? I wasn't really sure, which is probably why this film didn't work for me. If I think about the setup and the Ralph Fiennes character, this could have been a really good movie, but there is just too much screen time in the first half where nothing particularly interesting or funny is going on.