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Wild Horse Nine Review: John Malkovich And Sam Rockwell Make A Killer Double Act In CIA Thriller
After dates in Bruges, Los Angeles, Missouri and Inisherin, the Martin McDonagh world tour now lands at Easter Island. Against the backdrop of those giant stone heads (Moai), Wild Horse Nine mixes the one-liners and bursts of violence of In Bruges with the emotional wallop of The Banshees Of Inisherin, enriched by a bittersweet meditation on ageing that is new in McDonagh’s work. Perhaps best of all, it is vividly brought to life by electric performances from John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, both working at the peak of their considerable powers.
Some of McDonagh’s best work centres on the complexities of male friendship — usually between Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson — and Wild Horse Nine delves deeper into this fascination. Chris Carlisle (Malkovich) is a seasoned, ornery, increasingly forgetful CIA agent, who taught the Irish how to build bombs and has “killed people in countries you can’t spell”; he may have even supplied the rifle that killed JFK ten years earlier. His only friend (seemingly) is Lee Chesterfield (McDonagh regular Rockwell), a younger, less cynical, more together operative who can kill a man while eating a cheeseburger. The pair have been stationed in Chile for a year, working covertly to destabilise the newly elected socialist prime minister Salvador Allende, engineering a Pinochet-led military coup at the behest of the Nixon administration. Now it’s time for a break.
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BFI London Film Festival 2026: Wild Horse Nine
The craziest thing about spy movies, James Bond in particular, is how unbelievable they are, particularly when the spy is so open about who they are. Martin McDonagh’s hilarious and poignant new film Wild Horse Nine screening at the BFI London Film Festival, takes one such character, a fatalistic and doomed CIA operative and makes his cavalier openness about himself, his colleagues and any past or future missions he’s ever been involved with, the substance of the joke. A film entirely characteristic of McDonagh’s style and featuring his classic unlikely buddy relationship, this is a perfectly pitched satirical treat.
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