Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by mr grits (A) on February 18, 2013 at 17:45:27

The trailers looked awful. I skipped it at the walk-in and just yanked it out of Redbox the other night. Boy, I was surprised.

Walken was terrific, Harrelson and Sam Rockwell out of the park crazy. There was a lot of funny stuff going on and Rockwell got most of the good lines. Harrelson was so psycho it hurt. Walken got to be Walken at his best. (He and DeNiro seem to be senior blossoms.) Colin Farrell played more of a straight man to Rockwell while Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, and Olga Kurylenkno provided brief but story-advancing scenery.

Basically Rockwell is best buds with Farrell who has written several screenplays but has gone creatively dry and is swimming in booze. Rockwell throws out some crazy ideas and one is Seven Psychopaths. A story line so strung-out attempts to explain it would require diagrams. Walken, a buddy to the crowd, kidnaps dogs with Rockwell for cash and one day they kidnap Harrelson's dog. This puts our mains in deep doo-doo and struggling to out run Woody.

It is actually better than it sounds on paper or in trailers.

3 outta 5 for stone cold craziness and some killing.