Okay, so I am aware that the movie is almost a year old, but I just got around to watching it last weekend after both my brother and sister wasted much of my life and a lot of precious oxygen telling me how brilliant it was. Being a lover of art I was excited to watch the movie that had won the hearts of my siblings and the good folks at the oscars.
The movie follows two hitmen after one of them botched a job by killing a little boy and the other one (his mentor, trainer, who knows/cares) drags him off to Bruges in Belgium to cool of. BIG SUPRISE the mentor older type fellow has to kill his young protegee because with a cruel, heartless mobster killing kids just wont do.
When faced with his prey, who is about to kill himself and save Mr. Old guy the trouble, Mr. Old Guy changes heart and convinces the young guy to not kill himself, but to flee to parts unknown. For some reason when he tries to flee he isn't allowed to leave the town because he pissed off some Neo Nazi so he sticks around to incur the wrath of the mob boss from back home in England.
When Mr. Mob boss hears from Mr. Old Guy that Young Guy is not dead he has to rush on a plane himself and fly to Bruges to take care of business himself, despite his families' distaste towards his decision. In the end he shoots old guy in the leg, who then jumps off a building and warns young guy to run away. Young guy runs but still gets shot by a magic 9mm bullet that goes and kills a midget; I mean "dwarf" who Mr. Mob Boss thinks is a little boy. Holding strong to his principles Mr. Mob Boss puts his gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Thats the movie.
I personally thought this movie was awful. The characters were poorly written, the plot was thin and implausible, and the sheer physics of it were impossible. Now I am not one of those fanboys who obssesses over minutia but seriously! You mention that you are loading hollow point rounds into a 9MM PISTOL and the bullets magically travel through one person and kill another. You have people getting shot like 9 or 10 times and living where one of those bullets just plain old won't stop and goes and kills someone else AFTER penetrating the body of another. I mean come on!
The acting was decent, but good acting is only one component in a masterpiece. There was nothing in the character that lead me to believe that either of the protagonists were killers for hire. One was a mopey mainc-depressive where the other was an old yuppie tourist. Being a huge fan of both mob flicks and psychology I can honestly say neither of them were truly written well to be believable. Hitmen are not normal people who like to behave as such. They are heartless bastards who just plain ol' like to get the job done.
The movie dragged on a lot.... it took forever to establish a setting that Tarantino would have done in a 10 second combination of film and dialogue. That is a great way to describe the movie; it wanted to be something more than it was.
An artsy movie, like a video game, must have enough of a strong concept and execution to back the pretensiousness. This movie would have made a great 20 minute twilight zone episode, but stretched out to a full length artsy feature falls flat on it's face.
The movie follows two hitmen after one of them botched a job by killing a little boy and the other one (his mentor, trainer, who knows/cares) drags him off to Bruges in Belgium to cool of. BIG SUPRISE the mentor older type fellow has to kill his young protegee because with a cruel, heartless mobster killing kids just wont do.
When faced with his prey, who is about to kill himself and save Mr. Old guy the trouble, Mr. Old Guy changes heart and convinces the young guy to not kill himself, but to flee to parts unknown. For some reason when he tries to flee he isn't allowed to leave the town because he pissed off some Neo Nazi so he sticks around to incur the wrath of the mob boss from back home in England.
When Mr. Mob boss hears from Mr. Old Guy that Young Guy is not dead he has to rush on a plane himself and fly to Bruges to take care of business himself, despite his families' distaste towards his decision. In the end he shoots old guy in the leg, who then jumps off a building and warns young guy to run away. Young guy runs but still gets shot by a magic 9mm bullet that goes and kills a midget; I mean "dwarf" who Mr. Mob Boss thinks is a little boy. Holding strong to his principles Mr. Mob Boss puts his gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Thats the movie.
I personally thought this movie was awful. The characters were poorly written, the plot was thin and implausible, and the sheer physics of it were impossible. Now I am not one of those fanboys who obssesses over minutia but seriously! You mention that you are loading hollow point rounds into a 9MM PISTOL and the bullets magically travel through one person and kill another. You have people getting shot like 9 or 10 times and living where one of those bullets just plain old won't stop and goes and kills someone else AFTER penetrating the body of another. I mean come on!
The acting was decent, but good acting is only one component in a masterpiece. There was nothing in the character that lead me to believe that either of the protagonists were killers for hire. One was a mopey mainc-depressive where the other was an old yuppie tourist. Being a huge fan of both mob flicks and psychology I can honestly say neither of them were truly written well to be believable. Hitmen are not normal people who like to behave as such. They are heartless bastards who just plain ol' like to get the job done.
The movie dragged on a lot.... it took forever to establish a setting that Tarantino would have done in a 10 second combination of film and dialogue. That is a great way to describe the movie; it wanted to be something more than it was.
An artsy movie, like a video game, must have enough of a strong concept and execution to back the pretensiousness. This movie would have made a great 20 minute twilight zone episode, but stretched out to a full length artsy feature falls flat on it's face.
