In Bruges
by Martin McDonagh
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Actor: Ann Elsley, Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, Mark Donovan, Ralph FiennesDirector: Martin McDonagh
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of In Bruges
DVD Review: D+
Summary: 1 Stars
What a nihilistic, self-conscious piece of garbage. I had such high hopes -- especially with the casting. Ralph Fiennes was just awful; Gleeson and Firth made the best of a bad script. The only saving grace was the beautiful sense of place -- such a contrast to the unnecessarily ugly story.DVD Review: In Bruges
Summary: 5 Stars
Love this movie. Like nothing else you've probably ever seen. Terrific performances by Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleason, Ralph Fiennes and the rest of the cast. Crazy violent mixed with off the wall comedy in a hybrid that works wonderfully well. You have no idea where it's going. Worth it just for the wonderful town of Bruges which is as photogenic as anything I've seen on film. Take the crazy ride - I guarantee you'll enjoy it immensely. Screenplay by Martin McDonagh, was nominated for both the Writers Guild and Oscars last year.DVD Review: A True Original
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best films, if not the best, I've seen from 2008. So many films you go into with certain expectations and "In Bruges" defies them for the better. I categorize this film with "Pulp Fiction", "The Usual Suspects" and "Memento" as recent films that actually expand the language of the cinema. Director-scenarist Martin McDonagh does not take his cues from anyone. Many would lump this with Tarantino and Ritchie but this is a unique work. How many films center around hitmen where nary a bullet is fired except in flashback? This is a somber piece about men who rue their profession and regret the choices they've made infused with a certain level of wry humor. The film's main focus is on character but there are some fantastic story twists. The film's setting, the medieval city of Bruges in Belgium, adds to the film's exotic appeal. Colin Farrel finally given a role worthy of his talents, shines as the greenhorn gunman, Ray. Brendan Gleeson gives his best performance since "The General" as the more sensible hitman, Ken. Ralph Fiennes account of a ruthless crime boss is the best of it's kind since Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast". Fiennes gives you the chills even with his disembodied voice over the telephone. This is rough going in terms of language and violence but ultimately you'll walk away impressed by "In Bruges".DVD Review: Terrible film
Summary: 1 Stars
Extremely violent, senselessly gory, overly preachy, melodramatic and if for the amount of funny bits this qualifies as a black comedy it could also be classified as a romantic movie for the love scenes.DVD Review: Search for atonement, quest for justice...in a comedy? Great!
Summary: 4 Stars
Altough this film is extremely funny, fast paced and great entertainment, it's all really about the search for atonement for a messed hit that results in colateral damage and the consequence of that action...a travel to Bruges (with the intention of a last wish granted; seen as a S**thole by the interested party). Collin Farrel/Ray achieves perfection in this role of an edgy, irresponsible and overwhelmed by guilt rooky assassin...indiferent to beauty and searching for an escape. Brendan Gleeson's/Ken interpretation is absolutely great; an experienced and calm man - almost a mentor figure. Ralph Fiennes/Harry also portrays an unforgetable character; a crime boss with a rigid set of rules of conduct, that guides is actions through and through...in a way, he is quite noble. The directing is great, achieving beautiful shots of several of Bruges landmarks. The dialogs and situations reach from the very comic to the philosofical. The situations that lead to the grand finale are unbelievable! If even one element of the plot would disappear the end would be totally diferent (even the weird interest of Ray/Collin in the midget!). Worth watching this film twice.
Description of In Bruges
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)!
Get ready for the outrageous and unpredictable fun you will have In Bruges, the movie critics are calling, "wildly entertaining" - Stephen Rebello, Playboy.
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 (Cl?mence Po?sy) 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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