By: Shannon Tesser | KFAN.com

Two minutes in to Seven Psychopaths a psychopath known as the Jack of Diamonds walks up to two gangsters waiting to kill their boss’ girlfriend and shoots them each in the head. Add in a screenwriter who can’t finish his script, an out of work actor who kidnaps dogs, his partner who is a religious man with a violent past, a gangster who loves his dog more than his girlfriend, and a few other psychopaths thrown in for good measure to round out the seven (ish) psychopaths in Seven Psychopaths.

Marty (Colin Ferrell) is the screenwriter who is trying to finish his movie, also titled Seven Psychopaths.  Actually, Marty is trying to start writing his screenplay, since he only has the title. His friend, Billy (Sam Rockwell), is trying to help his creative process, as well as begging to write it with him. Billy is the out of work actor who kidnaps dogs with his partner Hans (Christopher Walken) for a living. Hans’ intentions are good; he is using his reward money to pay for his wife’s cancer treatments. Billy and Hans treat their kidnap victims kindly, keeping them fed and loved in a warehouse and then return them to their owner once they see a “reward” sign. The conflict of the movie comes in to play when Billy kidnaps the beloved dog of notorious gangster, Charlie Costello (Woody Harrelson). Charlie will stop at nothing to get his girl Bonny back, including threatening his dog walker while she is tied to a chair.  Along the way stories are told of other psychopaths made up by Marty for his screenplay, as well as stories about Hans’ past psychopathic behavior, and a tale told to them by a Dexter-like psychopath (kills serial killers) who answers an ad Billy put in LA Weekly “calling all psychopaths.”

So many things describe Seven Psychopaths; brilliant, violent, hilarious, disturbing. All those elements twisted in to one movie makes for a heck of a ride. Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken are the highlight of the movie, both brilliant in their drastically different psychopathic behavior. Walken’s character wants an end to the violence, where Rockwell will not quit until he gets his shoot out! And believe me, there is enough violence to rival any Tarantino movie.

Definitely worth seeing opening weekend!

Rated R

In theatres October 12^th