{"id":3461,"date":"2016-06-19T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:15:47","slug":"seven-psychopaths-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"Seven Psychopaths-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seven Psychopaths-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Martin McDonagh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #422<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70241756.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3462\" src=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70241756-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70241756\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70241756-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/70241756.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 19, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seven Psychopaths (2012) is a film that I truly wanted to like more than I did.<\/p>\n<p>It started well with a Quentin Tarantino-style that was appealing, and the film does contain an interesting premise.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Farrell plays the straight man in a cast of offbeat, quirky characters and tries to complete a screenplay entitled &#8220;Seven Psychopaths&#8221; based on them.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds great, but halfway through the movie, it stopped delivering. I found myself slightly bored.<\/p>\n<p>The film has a unique concept, to be sure, but fizzles during the second act, so much so that it stopped making much sense and lost my interest.<\/p>\n<p>I did admire the creativity, though, and the chemistry among the cast is great, but the overall story in Seven Psychopaths (2012) disappointed me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Independent Spirit Award Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Supporting Male-Sam Rockwell, Best Screenplay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Psychopaths-2012 Director Martin McDonagh Starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell Scott&#8217;s Review #422 Reviewed June 19, 2016 Grade: B- Seven Psychopaths (2012) is a film that I truly wanted to like more than I did. It started well with a Quentin Tarantino-style that was appealing, and the film does contain an interesting premise. Colin Farrell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seven Psychopaths-2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,225,179,192,41,215,211,207],"tags":[6568,11767,1378,2229,2836,1430,5156,3580,2825,12619,1659,3581,2479,12620],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-films","category-comedies","category-crime-dramas","category-darkcomedies","category-dramas","category-indiefilms","category-indie-comedies","category-indie-dramas","category-satires","tag-abbie-cornish","tag-brendan-sexton-iii","tag-christopher-walken","tag-colin-farrell","tag-gabourey-sidibe","tag-harry-dean-stanton","tag-kevin-corrigan","tag-martin-mcdonagh","tag-michael-stuhlbarg","tag-olga-kurylenko","tag-sam-rockwell","tag-tom-waits","tag-woody-harrelson","tag-zeljko-ivanek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24410,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/24410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}