7 PSYCHOPATHS
R
105 Minutes
Director: Martin McDonagh
Writer: Martin McDonagh
Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson,
Woody, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits
CAST
Sam Rockwell...Billy
Colin Farrell ...Marty
Christopher Walken ... Hans
Kevin Corrigan ... Dennis
Woody Harrelson... Charlie
Bonny the ShihTzu ... Bonny
Tom Waits...Zachariah
Christine Marzano ... The Hooker
'I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.'
-Christopher Walken
7 PSYCHOPATHS is a lot like ZACH AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO (2008): it's a movie about making a movie. Largely a character driven story. This film is so complex, and nuanced. To explain it with words, or even diagrams for that matter, wouldn't do it justice.
The central character, Billy is the only genuine psychopath in this story. The other 6 psychopaths aren't psycho; there aren't very many people that can read minds.
Marty is an Irish, alcoholic writer, who doesn't seem to be very talented. I think Colin Farrell got this part because he didn't know that he was auditioning for anything.
My favorite actor stars in another movie. No, it's not a COUNTRY BEARS sequel. The man, nay deity I'm talking about is Christopher Walken.
There's such a wide chasm between the characters he portrays, and the real Christopher Walken. Offscreen, he hates guns, and isn't Italian. It's a similar phenomenon to Andy Kaufman and his alter ego, (for lack of a better term), Tony Clifton: the yin and yang
Walken plays a career criminal. In his younger days he did some awful things. But over the past couple decades, he's settled into a life of petty crime. Such as JOE DIRT (2001). Oh, I almost forgot. Walken's character, Hans, shares a similar set of personality traits.
Lately, Hans has kidnapped dogs, solely to get reward money, and his wife has the cancer. Who is it really hurting? He's litter-aly trying to cure cancer. Kidnapping dogs, worked out okay for David Spade in LOST AND FOUND (1999).
Tom Waits plays Zachariah. Him and his wife used to kill serial killers. His pet rabbit was always present. It should be noted, the rabbit never actually partook of the slaughter, he just accompanied Zachariah wherever he went.
Don't worry, that adorable ShihTzu doesn't die because she doesn't exist. She is merely a figment of a character's imagination. Doesn't that sound like bullshit? It should, I made it up. The dog does exist in this work of fiction, and she doesn't die. The only time a dog dies in a movie, is when the dog is on the movie poster...and it stars Tom Hanks, or Owen Wilson.
Final Verdict: 85 out of 100
