Three Billboards is written and directed by Martin McDonague and stars Francis McDormand as Mildred the mother of a young girl who was raped and murdered and is frustrated by the lack of action from the local police chief (Woody Harrelson) so she rents some advertising space on three abandoned billboards coming into town billboards that don’t make people think of English Muffins or Clown College but of a serious case.
Three Billboards is well written and performed but it left me a little cold especially given its recent streak in the awards race but before I delve into my negatives I will delve more into those performances as they are the best thing about this movie McDormand is great as someone who has been through hell and back and doesn’t give a rats ass about anyone or anything anymore she just wants justice to be served and a painful chapter of her family’s life to be closed, Woody Harrelson is very good as the local police chief under a lot of pressure but Sam Rockwell didn’t do much for me as the racist cop his arc felt too familiar to me.
But the biggest problem I have with this movie is its tone on the one hand it is a very serious drama about a mother having to suffer the insufferable and bury their child long before they wanted to and their search for justice and answers goes nowhere so she takes matters into her own hands much to the dismay of the local townspeople but on the other hand it has all of this black humour in it and copious amount of harsh language now I am far from a prude from some fucking language but this movie gives Wolf of Wall Street a run for its money and that film had a lot of both but here the two styles just didn’t mesh for me.
And so that was 3 Billboards and it was okay but its tonal style left me cold, 2 out of 5.
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