In Bruges | 
 enlarge | Director: Martin Mcdonagh
Actors: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Mark Donovan, Ann Elsley
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 465
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 62102023
UPC: 025195016322
EAN: 0025195016322
ASIN: B0018BD9DA
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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Condition: Former Rental. Store stickers on case and disc has minor surface marks that do not affect play. Ships first class M-F. All products are 100% guaranteed from condition to delivery
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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 (Clemence Poesy) 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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 My God what a horrible movie September 3, 2008
Ian Kaplan (Livermore, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Get ready for the outrageous and unpredictable fun you will ever have in Bruges, the movie critics are calling "wildy entertaining"
That's what it says on the back of the DVD case. I really can't imagine who would call this movie "fun". Depressing, pointless, poorly made, poorly written. All of those things. But "fun"?
"A life-and-death struggle of comic proportions"... I can't imagine who would find this movie "comic". This is what I expected when I rented it. The trailers shown in the theater leads you to believe that it is a comedy. This impression results from the fact that they packed every funny scene in the movie into the trailer. The rest of the movie is bleak, terrible and pointless. If you like pointless Dutch films, then "In Bruges" is for you. For the rest of us, give this terrible film a pass. What a horrid waste of time. I want my 107 minutes back. The only reason I made it all the way through the film was that I was too stunned to believe that a film that was promoted as a comedy could really, really be this bleak and terrible.
 Interesting Film - NOT A COMEDY August 31, 2008
R. Kruss (Detroit, MI USA)
Don't pay attention to any of the "canned" blurbs about this movie. It is about as far from a comedy as you can get. Its a very dark film with some comedic moments and a warped sense of irony. In the end, it tells an old story... bad people, no matter how charming or repentant, still are bad people.
One Strange, Quirky Movie That Kept Me Laughing!! August 31, 2008
L. A. Vitale
Just watched this last night on dvd.... I enjoyed this artsy, quirky film immensely and enjoyed that it kept me laughing at unexpected moments with its dark humor! The acting, storyline and the dark comedy on the whole makes "In Bruges" an excellent movie to watch...
Must say that "In Bruges" is also a refreshing change of pace in terms of movies that are the usual slapstick comedies that get old to watch after a while!
 excellent movie August 30, 2008
FleaSwen (NY, NY)
This movie was excellent! Both funny and dramatic. If you like European films, you will love this. We had a great time watching it. Would recommend to anyone!
 Who would enjoy this film? August 28, 2008
DesignManiac (Beaverton, Oregon USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
So do you like violent films, or are you someone who enjoys beautiful scenery? Well, this film will please neither. It is too slow paced for the car chase and shoot-out crowd, and far too full of graphic violence to please those with more gentle sensibilities. So who is this film's intended audience? Someone who can enjoy "clever" dialog - except hit-men are dysfunctional (and possibly stupid) by definition, and you have to enjoy the f-word a lot. What we are left with is an audience who enjoys the existential pleasures of watching the sensibilities of hit-men buddies who are "doing their thing" - ah yes, they could get something out of it. "Pulp fiction" aficionados perhaps? Fans of dark comedy? Maybe "Kind hearts and Coronets" would be a better alternative. Would they care that the story takes place in Bruges?
This film wouldn't please the "realism" crowd either - people don't usually commit suicide by jumping from very tall bell towers as a short cut to the ground, in order to deliver a message (or at least provide a distraction). After they splat (truly) like a sack of tomatoes, they shouldn't be saying much either. I couldn't help wishing that the idiots had all killed themselves in the first five minutes, and then we could have enjoyed a nice tour of Bruges.
In the extras, there actually is a nice barge tour of the city center of Bruges (with no video cuts), although LARGE AND DISTRACTING SUPERSCRIPTS AND SUBSCRIPTS are embedded as video (so you can't turn them off) in order to describe the city's history.
Certainly this is a unique and visually beautiful film, but after the first viewing, the fast-forward button may be useful. I give it two stars for some nice scenery.
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