Enjoyable but implausible

Rating: 7/10 (25 December 2008)

I really enjoyed this movie, right up until the very end. One is not convinced that the last act of extreme violence would have been committed. There are other implausibilities as well. Why would the beautiful Belgian girl fall for one of the hit men so quickly and in spite of so much evidence that he is someone to stay away from?
But the two hit men are so well played by Gleason and Farrell that one forgives almost anything. They get pulled into various scenes that are absurd to the point of surrealism, and draw you in quickly to the humor, suspense, or both that Martin McDonagh has written into them.
I'll be very interested in McDonagh's next film.