Awful. The Pits.

Rating: 1/10 (14 July 2009)

Atrocious film-making. Two morons, that by the end we're meant to find adorable, arrive in Bruges for some sinister mission. What follows is basically a hate filled diatribe humiliating gay men (shock horror), dwarfs and women. There's no sophistication in the supposedly brilliant writing. It's the kind of lousy movie that seems to have been inspired by rednecks and writing on toilet walls in pubs.
Reading some of the reviews of this film is mind boggling. Most harp on and on about Farrell's redemption but given that this particular element in the script is so utterly unconvincing (Is this what McDonaugh considers irony?) and simply used as a device to validate Farrell's rampant homophobia and misogyny-the result is sickening, not illuminating.
Yes, Bruges looks wonderful but who cares when you're watching offensive rubbish of this nature. Painful.