Simple story set in a small town has a very big heart

Rating: 8/10 (6 January 2017)

Reviewed July 2011
It deals on a very serious and sad story to be called a comedy, but it's consistence in humor is way too dense than your regular fun movie. It does not pack any laugh out loud kind of jokes, but the one that leaves a smile on you with it's subtlety and darkness and a nod of appreciation for it's wit.
A hit goes bad as a kid gets killed by accident and the two guys Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) responsible for it are asked to go to Bruges, Belgium to get away from the heat.
Takes a little while to get used to Colin Farrell's histrionics as it starts and it gets better as it goes. Gleeson does full justice to a terrific role. Bruges, the town itself is a character and justifies the title of the movie. Last and not the least, Clémence Poésy has the best smile going around and she is mostly used as a pretty doll. It packs sharp and dark satirical dialogue that is full of wit and fun and there are many sequences which makes full use of it, be it the ones involving the midget or how they go on in the climax about honor.
Though there is nothing to enlighten you here (which one shouldn't be expecting out of any movie), it is a thoroughly enjoyable film with fantastic writing and performances.