Hangmen

Gallows humor. Literally. As can be expected from McDonagh, his return to the stage is adorned with refined verbal skirmish, a graduating dense atmosphere of fate events, excellent characterization of characters and black humor that make you laugh a lot. The only complaint is that this time he largely (but not completely) gave up his characteristically distinctive mix of chilling black humor going hand in hand with dramatic seriousness, where incorrect humor serves as a reflection and not "only" as a source of amusement. As a result, this is not only a funny but one time performance loaded with one-liners. So, it belongs to his weaker performances like Behanding in Spokane. But it certainly lags behind the masterpieces that have made him "Shakespeare of Tarantino poetics", that is for sure. (04/05/2016)