The Guard

2011

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

32
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 94% · 136 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 99311 99.3K

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

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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

Brendan Gleeson Photo
Brendan Gleeson as Gerry Boyle
Mark Strong Photo
Mark Strong as Clive Cornell
Don Cheadle Photo
Don Cheadle as FBI Agent Wendell Everett
Liam Cunningham Photo
Liam Cunningham as Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
848.2 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 6
1.5 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 23

Movie Reviews

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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Reviewed by kosmasp 10 / 10

Protecting comedy

I really don't like those phrases but this movie deserves the "instant classic" tag in my book. B. Gleeson is just amazing and seeing Don Cheadle having a role where he is actually acting is a treat in itself too. He has shown so much potential (Hotel Rwanda to name but one movie), but has done quite a few awful movies too, that I always relish him in the ones that actually are good.

But it's the Gleeson show here and the guy shows he can carry a movie alone. He is funny, witty and his character is quite hard to define. Actually a sort of Dujardin "OSS 117", but more realistically and more cynically I guess. Or if you want to go old school, Pink Panther it is. There is not enough good words I can say about this, so I suggest you go ahead and watch it yourself :o)

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