Not that he needs any good fortune with this latest effort, which springs from an expertly crafted screenplay, one that recalls the odd couple set-up of McDonagh’s debut In Bruges. While that featured Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell as two bickering hitmen on a job in the titular "fairytale" town, here we have Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich, as two CIA operatives. And, guess what? They bicker. A lot.
Fear not, though; McDonagh is far from spinning his wheels, delivering a poignant, powerful film that skilfully blends the personal and the political. The year is 1973, and Rockwell’s Lee and Malkovich’s Chris are in Santiago, Chile. "We came down here to destabilise your democracy," the outlandish veteran Chris tells two disbelieving girls at the airport, said in such a jokey way they can’t take him seriously. But underneath the dark humour lies the bleak truth.
The reason for the trip will become clear, even with Lee under instruction from his boss MJ (Steve Buscemi) to keep watch over the volatile Chris. "You get old… you start to question shit," says this proverbial loose canon, who is planning to write an explosive memoir. It’s a tome that’s of great concern to MJ – not least because Chris was part of the Bay of Pigs debacle and, even more intriguingly, was present in Dallas in November 1963, when JFK was shot.
Already exasperated with his partner, Lee also has his own issues back home, dealing with his boozy, cynical wife Marge (Parker Posey), the mother of his two kids (when he asks how they are, she tosses off "Who cares?" – one of many brilliantly delivered lines). With Chris and Lee tramping around Easter Island like your typical bullish American tourists, a remote locale beautifully captured by DoP Ben Davis, it’s a delicious playground for McDonagh to unfold this blackly comic drama.
View Green Video on the source websiteWith Buscemi on wily form, Posey hilariously acerbic and even a touching cameo from Tom Waits, it’s a startling comic cauldron. Yet lurking underneath is the unsettling sense that the CIA is riding roughshod over Latin America, callously pulling political strings. Like the flip side of Paul Thomas Anderson’s tale of left-leaning revolutionaries, One Battle After Another, McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine hints, brutally, at unchecked American imperialism. An untameable beast of a movie.
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