One of the films of the year

Rating: 9/10 (24 May 2008)

"Somehow, Ken, I believe that the balance shall tip in the favor of culture, like a big fat f*cking retarded f*cking black girl on a see-saw."
If there's a line that perfectly sums up In Bruges it's the above.Offensive, emotional, hilarious and brilliant would also be good individual words..
This film is by far one of the best this year.For me it ranked up and around No Country For Old Men.Please God let Martin McDonagh make more movies (preferabley with Brendan Gleeson again).For those who worry about Colin Farrell's comic timing, WORRY NOT!He's spot on, complimenting the immense Gleeson and Fiennes brilliantly.
Fiennes is clearly in his element playing against type as a hard as nails cocky gangster who could be in the nest Guy Ritchie movie.
The film's strength is in it's ability to have you laughing one minute and crying the next.Martin McDonagh knows how to write, we all know that.On the path from stage to screen he has used his unique manipulation of the English language to prove his worth time and time again.As well as being an accomplished writer he's also a bloody Academy Award winner!! I saw this the day it was released in Ireland in a less than half full screen in the middle of the day and everyone of us was laughing away together in a shared experience of what will no doubt be a classic, Irish roller-coaster ride of a film.
(Christ, I even wanted to go to Bruges by the end of it..)