Nihilistic Movie in Bad Taste

Rating: 1/10 (2 August 2008)

The DVD version of this movie was advertised as a comedy. Maybe the movie should have been advertised as the "Existential exploration of the lives of English murderers in the early 21st century". Or as an "Inquiry into the meaninglessness of life exemplified by three men who commit brutal acts". A comedy it is not.
The movie showed the miserable and pointless lives of three hit men, interspersed with ugly scenes of murder. There were some lame jokes on Bruges and Belgium, which did not get better by overuse. The film was slow, presenting an elegiac, not a comedic tempo. Maybe some people find the display of the internal conflicts of hit men funny. I found it -- at least in this movie -- repulsive and nauseating. At the end of the movie I had a bad taste in my mouth that I wouldn't wish on anybody.
The acting and the photography were good. Forget the rest.