The Guard

2011

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

34
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 81% · 135 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 100783 100.8K

dry humour we are all the same prostitute drug smuggling blackmail rural area

Plot summary

When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.

Director

John Michael McDonagh Photo
John Michael McDonagh

Top cast

Wale Ojo Photo
Wale Ojo as Doctor Oleyuwo
Darren Healy Photo
Darren Healy as Jimmy Moody
Sarah Greene Photo
Sarah Greene as Sinead Mulligan
Mark Strong Photo
Mark Strong as Clive Cornell
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848.2 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 6
1.5 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 49

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 8 / 10

Brendan Gleeson is brilliant

A shipload of cocaine worth $500Million 'Street Value' is coming into Ireland, and the only people who can stop it is Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) and FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle).Wendell is a straight laced privileged guy on a mission. Gerry is an irreverent drug-doing whore-doing racist-commenting loudmouth cop. So Wendell takes him as an idiot at first. But it's soon obvious to Wendell that Gerry is the smartest guy in the room and he knows all the local players.Brendan Gleeson has created one of the funniest raunchiest cop character ever. Where else are you going can dialog like this? "I'm old enough to be your father." "Well, you can think about that while you're f**king us, if that turns you on."
Reviewed by markgorman 7 / 10

Gleeson commands the screen from start to finish. Hilarious.

Michael McDonagh is the brother of one of the funniest writers in the world just now. Like him, he is a foul mouthed upstart with a unique ability to investigate Irishness with tremendous energy and vividness.I was lucky enough to attend the premiere in Edinburgh this week and enjoyed what is another great addition to the McDonagh canon of work.Inevitably it has to be compared to the superior In Bruges but this is no lightweight cast off. Particularly when it one again focuses on a heavyweight performance by Irish heavyweight, Brendan Gleeson. In "In Bruges" Gleeson had to battle for compliments against Colin Farrell who has never performed better and had most of the best lines. Not here. This is all Gleeson, ably abetted by Don Cheadle as the Black FBI agent drafted in on the back of a glittering career to track down a bunch of slightly bungling drug runners in sleepy old Conemarra - Gleeson's patch.Gleeson and Cheadle spar well and develop a likable relationship, despite this it's not the heart of the movie; that belongs, again, to Gleeson in a tour de force performance.Cheadle's good and is a great foil. The baddies are less well developed characters and, for my taste, were slightly too caricaturised.It's not a life changing film but it has to be seen for Gleeson's complete mastery of McDonagh's marvellous script.
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