Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2018) - The Wrong Time Maybe!

★★☆☆☆

Screenwriter-director Martin McDonagh has, I gotta admit, a definite talent in making black comedies that would make you laugh and cry and sigh over a bit at the same time! ‘In Bruges’ is certainly my favorite! 5 years after ‘Seven Psychopaths’ that is however, not my cup of tea, he introduces ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ that doesn’t really excite or thrill me in any way, but as a black comedy if you will, it does live up to certain expectations. The thing is, not every one could be in the right mood to get it or accept such absurdity while it seems to be making it a big deal sometimes. So I guess you’d either like it or hate it. There should be no so-so feeling about it!

The story seems like a real case but if you lack a sense of humor, or get too serious about it, you’d be rather let down. This is not a crime story but a story after the crime. It’s not getting you to solve the case. Even though it’s about a gruesome murder, there’s nothing disturbing or hilarious here. The way it goes is quite predictable as a matter of fact. Dialogues and acting take up a great part of it but I find it tedious somehow. I don’t know, maybe it’s the wrong kind of time for me to be checking out such a thing right there.

Well, life does act like a bitch sometimes, because you know when you’re getting serious about it, it’s apt to make a joke out of you. And when you’re trying to just want to take it easy, it plays hard on you instead. Or does it? Maybe it’s just you being too obliged, and not being able to let it go!