Like the killer who always returns to the scene of the crime, Martin McDonagh has once again taken up the formula previously tested in In Bruges and The Banshees of Inisherin: two friends of different ages and a complex relationship are forced to be together in a delimited place, be it a city or an island. To admirers of the verbal cinema –full of dark humor and witty dialogue– of the Irish playwright and filmmaker, Wild horse nine offers them an almost perfect balance between repetition and variation. Chris (John Malkovich, grandiose) and Lee (Sam Rockwell, always charismatic), the typical male protagonist pair of McDonagh, are CIA agents instead of hitmen, and the context in which they move is less familiar (the Chilean Easter Island) and more concrete (1973, shortly before the military coup against Salvador Allende) than in previous works.