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Colin Farrell and Academy Award-nominee Ralph Fiennes star in this edgy action-packed comedy filled with thrilling chases spectacular shoot-outs and an explosive ending you won't want to miss!Hit men Ray (Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson Harry Potter) have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists they soon find themselves in a life & death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss (Fiennes)!System Requirements:Running Time: 107 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/ODD COUPLES Rating: R UPC: 025195016322 Manufacturer No: 62102023
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The considerable pleasures of In Bruges begin with its title, which suggests a glumly self-important art film but actually fits a rattling-good tale of two Irish gangsters "keepin' a low profile" after a murder gone messily wrong. Bruges, the best-preserved medieval town in Belgium, is where the bearlike veteran Ken (Brendan Gleeson) and newbie triggerman Ray (Colin Farrell) have been ordered by their London boss to hole up for two weeks. As the sly narrative unfolds like a paper flower in water, "in Bruges" also becomes a state of mind, a suspended moment amid centuries-old towers and bridges and canals when even thuggish lives might experience a change in direction. And throughout, the viewer has ample opportunity to consider whose pronunciation of "Bruges" is more endearing, Gleeson's or Farrell's. The movie marks the feature writing-directing debut of playwright Martin McDonagh, whose droll meditation on sudden mortality, Six Shooter, copped the 2005 Oscar for best live-action short. Although McDonagh clearly relishes the musicality of his boyos' brogue and has written them plenty of entertaining dialogue, In Bruges is no stageplay disguised as a film. The script is deceptively casual, allowing for digressions on the newly united and briskly thriving Europe, and annexing passers-by as characters who have a way of circling back into the story with unanticipatable consequences. That includes a film crew--shooting a movie featuring, to Ray's fascination, "a midget" (Jordan Prentice)--and a fetching blond production assistant (Clémence Poésy) whose job description keeps evolving. There's one other key figure: Harry, the Cockney gang boss whose omnipotence remains unquestioned as long as he remains offscreen, back in England, as if floating in an early Harold Pinter play. Harry has reasons inextricably tender and perverse for selecting Bruges as his hirelings' destination, and eventually he emerges from the aether to express them--first as a garrulous telephone voice and then in the volatile form of Ralph Fiennes. By that point the charmed moment of suspension, already shaken by several irruptions of violence, is pretty well doomed. But In Bruges continues to surprise and satisfy right up to the end. --Richard T. Jameson
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In Bruges
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User Comments About In Bruges
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Deserves an Academy Award (or several!)
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Although humorous at times, this is a serious film of a developing friendship, a budding romance, and tragedy. A real 'must see' movie and deserving of an Academy Award (or several). In Bruges is probably this year's most under-rated film. The actors are superb and the location is perfect.
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You have to follow your code ...
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This is one of the themes of the movie. One of the key scenes is when Fiennes character confronts a character that Farrel's character roughed up. What I like about the movie is that the two main characters take responsibility for the bad choices they've made. They don't have any solutions, but they are willing to take responsibility. The movie is about miserable people, living with the morally bad choices they've made, knowing that life should be better than what they are experiencing. The dialog is ok.
The language is atrocious. It is how the characters define duty and responsibility in a morally ambiguous environment is what drives the movie foreward. Bruges is beautiful. I'm not sure this is every one's cup of tea, but I was smiling through out. Fiennes points out that it is his own fault so he should stop whining. The pacing is great. The acting is good.
Fiennes character is wonderfully strange.
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Made me google Jordan Prentice at once (the "midget" who is all the times doped with horse tranquilizer). One of the films I have enjoyed most lately. Absolutely great dialogues (totally un-politically correct), Ralph Fiennes is great as a cockney gangster, and, surprise., Colin Farrel can act.
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Be sure and watch it with the subtitles turned on.all the lines are funny but the accents are heavy. Fun movie with surprise ending.
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