Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Wonderful character development!

Excellent, smart action film.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It has some awesome things: 1-The characters aren't angels or demonds. All the protagonists have good and bad things. You know, like most humans! This shouldn't be such a rarity, but it totally is! 2-The funny parts (not always done to make laugh out loud, which is the way it should be) do not require "out of character" stuff. Everything that is funny its really the logical conclusion of the funny situations the characters are in, and their normal responses. That's why this deserves a lot of praise for the writing, which is insanely good (except for a couple of huge mistakes) 3-Then there's the drama/story which is perfectly paced and it has social commentary, but I'm not sure that part is neither revolutionary nor especially interesting. Its good.The acting is pretty great overall.Now the gripes: -There is a particularly female character that is treated like a "slow person" for no apparent reason other than some might laugh at her. It seems malicious more than social commentary on that type of person. Because she isn't a person, really, the way she's writen. -The Friends of our "hero?" are DIVERSE. Its too on the nose, and really not particularly interesting giving that they won't even be characters (they do little to nothing). They are "token black guy", only they aren't a black guy. If you don't have those characters in the script, why bother to do this fake inclusion stuff? But still. Great.

This movie was soooo bad. Unrealistic characters, unrealistic motives, and unrealistic story. The cast was a weak cast to start with, besides Woody. Then they kill him off half way through, instantly making the audience lose interest since he was the only likeable character. You can't even like the grieving mother since her way of dealing with her daughters murder is by committing felony after felony, and being an asshole to people who didn't deserve it. Overall, terrible movie with no glimpse of happiness or realism. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME.

I don't get why this movie has gotten so much praise, yeah, it's OK, but slow with a very boring plot. Only the acting can keep your interest for nearly 2 hours. This was more like a hallmark TV movie. Basically, Mildred, decides to put up billboards criticizing the work done by the police in her daughter's murder. In a flash back, we see she carries a lot of guilt because of the last conversation she had with her daughter, but that part is never expanded upon. So of course, people in town get on her back, because the sheriff, Willoughby, is well liked and dying of cancer. She gets a lot of threats and her son gets picked on, but she won't take down the billboards. One side plot which I didn't get why it was thrown in, was Willoughby gives his family a special day, then kills himself. I don't get why that was thrown in. Also, Dixon, one of the "bad" officers but depicted with a heart of gold at the end, beats up the advertising guy, and doesn't go to jail. Instead, he nearly dies at the police station when Mildred sets it on fire. Only to team up with her at the end for vigilante justice. So out of character. So she just leaves her only child left to go hunt someone down; you'd think her son would be her number one priority. It was like just a mesh-pot of story lines thrown in to make a nearly 2 hour run time.FINAL VERDICT: Just don't go in expecting some kind of murder mystery or action packed. Just regular people doing some dirty things to others because they think they have the right to revenge instead of dealing with their problems and grief.

It was amazing to watch this movie. Everything about it just clicks. The cast, editing, sound, direction, everything. Was extremely dark, shocking and mind provoking to watch throughout but all so real! It really grabbed me and forced me to reevaluate my values and beliefs