Editorial Review:

Product Description:
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)!System Requirements:Running Time: 107 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/ODD COUPLES Rating: R UPC: 025195016322 Manufacturer No: 62102023

Amazon.com:
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 (Clémence Poésy) 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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Rating: - Very good
Those expecting typical hollywood action/comedy should look elsewhere. This is a highly entertaining film with some funny moments, but not a feel good movie.

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Rating: - just let me do my thing
I saw a trailer for this movie which made it look like a very funny dark comedy and on the DVD cover it has these reviews saying how funny it is but it's actually a boring black comedy. Not too much really happens through most of the film except for the 2 hitmen touring around Bruges and getting into some minor situations and then their boss goes their to kill one of them for accidentaly shooting a kid. There is almost no action except for a little chase scene on foot towards the end which would've been okay if the dialoge would have been better. There are a few funny lines here and there through the movie but not that many and I mostly chuckled and only laughed outloud once or maybe twice also they talk pretty low so I had to turn it up loud. The only really good thing was the scenery of Bruges which is very nice.

I wouldn't recommend this but I do recommend seeing the trailer because it had most of the funny parts in it and you get to miss out on all the boring stuff.

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Rating: - Do not waste your time with this film
I do not normally publish reviews about the dvd's I watch. This one however left me wanting someone had warned me about it.
It is sad that good actors such as R. Fiennes would lend themselves to act in such a film. A tragic waste of a couple of hours...

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Rating: - Deserves an Academy Award (or several!)
In Bruges is probably this year's most under-rated film. Although humorous at times, this is a serious film of a developing friendship, a budding romance, and tragedy. The actors are superb and the location is perfect. A real 'must see' movie and deserving of an Academy Award (or several).

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Rating: - In Bruges by Brandon
Anyone who likes Colin Farrel will love this movie. It is a very dark comedy film that takes place in Belgium. About a hit man who botches a job. I recommend to everybody. You have to see it.