In Bruges

IMDB: In Bruges

Source: Cinema

Date viewed: May 2, 2008

I liked the movie quite a bit, but I don't really know what to say about it. It had good characters, an interesting story, and it was funny. I think what made it different from many other movies (besides the fact that it was worth watching (hahahhahaha)) was WHAT I found myself laughing at, especially compared to my fellow movie goers. As an aside, I have been in Bruges, and I have to differ from Ray. I thought it was lovely. - A

SPOILER ALERT. I liked the tidy, short-story-like plot. It was hilarious in parts, and although some of the violence was funny (the blinding sequence and Fiennes' recounting of it later), some of it was not, and the overall theme of regret for a killing gone wrong was well handled, I thought. Fiennes' theme of living by principles is easy to like, but the very idea seems to be challenged by not only Brendan Gleeson's Ken, but also the ending, when Harry makes a fatal mistake. - T