A film loved by many and offensive to many more

Rating: 2/10 (26 January 2009)

WARNING--The language in this review is like the language in the movie--just not gratuitous!
Colin Farrell plays an assassin who is pretty much like 'Father Dougal' from the "Father Ted" television series, though he also is sadistic and thoroughly unlikable and obnoxious. Brendan Gleeson (from the Oscar-winning short SIX SHOOTER) plays a less obnoxious murderer. These are the two "funny" heroes of this film.
According to IMDb "The word 'fuck' and its derivatives are said 126 times in this 107-minute film, an average of 1.18 'fucks' per minute". To me, this combined with the fact that the leading men are assassins, is more than enough reason to hate this film. While at times it seemed pretty clever and even interesting, I found everyone so repellent and stupid that I just couldn't stick with the film. Life is too short to watch crude films like this and I hate films where there is no one to care about at all. Although this film IS in the IMDb top 250, I can assume that this is a film you'll either love or hate--but probably mostly love. If you are a rather traditional guy like me, you'll be irritated by the sloppiness of injecting the f-word into every other sentence and see it as not just offensive but poor writing. Any idiot can say obscenities again and again--this isn't a sign of brilliance but of inadequacy and this seems to be the recent trend in other supposedly "great" films. And, making hateful heroes is a sure way to drive away many in the audience. Truly a film you either love or hate.