@SimplyRadishing
Its utterly horrendous its basically caucasian black face, it's clichéd offensive drivel.
The accents are the least of it.
How did the two of them get caught up in such guff
This.
Fintan O'Toole's theory is that John Patrick Shanley, the Irish-American dramatist who wrote the play it's based on, and who also wrote and directed this cowpat of a film, fundamentally misunderstood Martin McDonagh's plays (which satirise the clichés of Abbey Theatre Irish dramas for black comic purposes) and instead took them seriously, and so thought that all this stuff was actually usable material, rather than offensively stereotyped.
Also worth pointing out that when it was staged in NY, Emily Blunt's character was played by Debra Messing. Yes, Debra Messing. Grace from Will and Grace. The casting was that meticulous.
But agree entirely the accents aren't the point. This is more like releasing a film in which Random African Country is depicted as inhabited by a combination of the Black and White Minstrels, Uncle Tom and every stereotyped Black Mammy from Hollywood films, or Mexico as inhabited by sleepy poncho-clad peasants emerging from under their giant sombreros only to neck tequila, deal some drugs and enter the US illegally.