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Writer & director Martin McDonagh goes off on a tangent in his serio-comic thriller "Seven Psychopaths," about an alcohol screenwriter who has difficulties penning a screenplay about killers. Colin Farrell plays Marty, a scribe suffering from writer's block and Marty's best friend Billy (Sam Rockwell of "The Green Mile") pleads with him to help write his screenplay. Billy takes out an advertisement in the newspaper for psychopaths to visit Marty and relate their sordid stories. Meantime, Rockwell's best friend Hans (Oscar winner Christopher Walken of "The Deer Hunter") have been kidnapping dogs and returning them to their owners after a few days. Typically, the canine owners are so gratified that they pay Hans. This doesn't turn out to be the case with Charlie (Woody Harrelson of "Natural Born Killers") who threatens to kill anybody that abducts his dog. Basically, Charlie spends his entire time searching for the dog kidnappers, while Marty struggles to complete his screenplay. "Seven Psychopaths" goes off on tangents, some rewarding and others not so rewarding. The story about the Quaker father of a butchered daughter is unforgettable. A killer reforms himself, proves to prison officials that he has been rehabilitated, and gets released from prison. This doesn't stop the revenge hungry Quaker from stalking him. The killer has converted to Catholicism and plans to slice his throat open with a cutthroat razor. Much to his chagrin, the killer watches as the Quaker brandishes his own cutthroat razor and slashes his own throat. Clearly an art film with its many weird characters and confrontations, "Seven Psychopaths" won't be everybody's cup of tea, despite its distinguished cast.

The great is that the amazing acting hides that the story is a bit week. Mr walken is top of the line even if this is not his top 20 movie

Gave up on this after twenty five minutes or so. Big cast, speaking dumb lines. You know they are meant to be funny because of the pitch (psychopaths etc) but there is no wit in this script which is limp as wilted lettuce. Trying hard to be Tarantino but without whatever substance he can manage to imbue in his characters. Just seemed pointless sticking with it.