Review of Seven Psychopaths (2012) by Nick C — 05 Jan 2014

The trailers fool you. The seven are not the seven characters in the film, but characters in the brain of a screenplay writer. All he wants is to write a movie about seven insane people, and half of them are people he had made up on the spot, to fill his movie, to add to the movie we are watching itself.

Flaws are abound in "Seven Psychopaths", but the humor and violence make up for them. I mean it. This movie is so funny, so unimaginably gory, that it all makes up for the lack of stature this movie should have.

I don't really understand what this movie is missing. I mean come on, it has Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell in perfect roles. Maybe I'm just wrong, and the movie is perfect, but something is amiss.

I laughed and laughed, especially laughs from Walken, who is so content with himself that even when he loses someone dear to him he remains his centered self, his deeper, true feelings hidden until a moment of understanding.

This is a very funny movie, yes. A very... very very very violent movie, yes. But it has a heart. A heart that has met the devil, made a deal, and came back to share this wonderful, absurd movie.