The Guard (2011)

Directors:

John Michael McDonagh

Writers:

John Michael McDonagh

Actors:

Pat Shortt, Conor Moloney, Laura Hitchings, Wale Ojo, Darren Healy, Owen Sharpe

Synopsis:

Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it. When a fellow police...
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The Guard (2011)

A very solid buddy-copper that only gets better as it moves forward. Take out the exotic locale and the story's rather thin, but, on the whole, a very enjoyable (and lighthearted!) bit of Irish cinema.
MildredFierce
April 11, 2014
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The Guard (2011)

Brendan Gleeson is one of the best currently working and here he shines as an uncouth, mildy racist police office in a small town in Ireland who has to work with Don Cheadle's FBI agent on a drug trafficking case. Dark humor and inappropriate laughs abound.
wintermayer
March 29, 2012