movie thoughts: In Bruges

[orangerful]

In Bruges

This movie was NOT AT ALL what the trailer showed me.  In fact, the box art of the DVD is also a big FAT LIE.

I might have enjoyed this movie had it been advertised correctly.  Instead, I watched the trailer and thought I was in for an action/comedy involving hitmen ala Grosse Pointe Blank.  It was not that at all.  At first, I just went with it, hoping that Rotten Tomatoes wouldn't steer me wrong (it had a 79%).   But, alas, the film was very uneven.  It could not decide what it wanted to be - a crass comedy, a dark comedy, an arranging matches movie...it didn't know and I sure as heck don't know either.

And you see Ralph Fiennes on the cover?  Yeah, that's a lie.  He's hardly in the movie.  Brenden "Mad Eye Moody" Gleeson is in the movie, and does a good job but ultimately, this was a bit disappointment.  (The chick who played Fleur is also in the movie, it was like a Harry Potter reunion!)

Do yourself a favor and pass on this one. 

Originally posted on orangerful.vox.com

Comments

[vertigozooropa.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. The trailer was all Grosse Point Blank, but the film was more maudlin. I mean, the plot is all about criminals and their way of dealing with a tragic mistake, with much soliloquy.

But the film was funny. Mostly in the sheer volume of offensiveness.

Fuckin' gay American midgets!

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I wish I had never watched the trailer as it tainted my entire viewing of the film. There were times I was starting to like it and then I'd remember that I had been promised gun play.