Different is good. Dark drama made to a lightharted comedy in a weird way.

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2019)

Gave me a brothers Coen feel, I had to check mid trough if their name where attached to it. But no, I think. Martin McDonagh seems to be a writer of the same caliber though, In Bruge is one of my favorite movies and Seven Psychopaths was good too, both violent movies with strange and damaged characters, but also movies with a strong feel of comedy.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri has a dark and sad subject and is more serious than those other two mentioned. This could easily have been a really heavy drama and would probably still be a great film if soo. But we already seen a few of those like for example Winters Bone, Mystic River, Wind River, to name a few. This movie does instead something different. It keeps this comedic tone trough the whole film, with really funny scenes and with excellent timing and dellivery from the actors, "dark humor" off course, in the degree that I don't know if you could call this a comedy by any means at all, and even if I myself didn't really laugh out loud, this comedy that was present trough the whole film, gave this dark and heavy subject of a film a sort of light hearted tone, which was new and interesting, almost a bit weird but still very good, could easily been a fiasco but really worked here. And it also didn't take from impact and message of the film, actually the opposite, it made it more easy to really digest. It is actually masterfully done. And I could also care for all the characters, even though they were all heavely flawd to no extent, kind of like humans can be in real life, it would not be easy to like these characters at all, but still here for some reason, I did, exept one, but he only has two scenes.
Masterfully written, I would say, and with a top notch cast. It's perhaps not a movie I will see again and again, but a damn good movie worth buying to have in one's collection. I think that people that bash this movie either are jealous of the accomplished writing or don't get good writing.