Ray e Ken sono due contract killer freddi e spietati, costretti dal loro boss a rifugiarsi nella piccola città belga dopo che l’ultima missione è andata storta, provocando la morte di un bambino.

Initially a playwright, Martin McDonagh delivered in spades with this, his uproarious debut as a writer-director: a pitch-black comedy recounting a hapless hit job gone wrong. Special mention must be made of its marvellously barbed screenplay, modelled on Harold’s Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter”.