Not a review: "In Bruges"

(tiny spoilers)

My favorite thing about In Bruges was the part where somebody gets permanently disabled by a gun that's firing blanks. (In context this was funnier than it sounds.) Unlike a lot of the other WACKY TWISTS in that movie[1], that was something I haven't seen before, and it was a pretty entertaining illustration of one of my pet issues as a performing-arts person.

Oh, and Ralph Fiennes, of course; there was if anything an insufficient amount of Ralph Fiennes in this movie.


[1] See, just for example, there's a dwarf in the movie, but--here's the crazy thing--he swears and drinks and stuff! And he's surly! Isn't that creative? He's not as interesting as the same character was thirteen years ago in Living in Oblivion, but hey, this angry dwarf is also a racist! That's so wacky we don't even have to write any good lines for him.