The Guard
Written by John Michael McDonagh
Directed by John Michael McDonagh
United Kingdom, 2011
A black comedy thriller with racism as the major means of laughter doesn’t necessarily sound like a great cinematic experience. Director John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard is just that, featuring an excellent cast, effectively flat and off-kilter framing, and music that embraces the genre and its anomalous locale from Calexico.
McDonagh, brother of playwright and In Bruges director Martin McDonagh, does well to have his protagonist Detective Boyle (Brendan Gleeson, Gangs of New York, In Bruges) be less crotchety old Gran Torino-style racist, and more tongue-in-cheek rebel.
Boyle is the morally bankrupt, superficially naïve, ultimately honorable policeman of a small Irish town. FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda, Crash) comes to town looking for a few big-time drug traffickers and the two men with opposite styles and methods are forced to work together.
Written by John Michael McDonagh
Directed by John Michael McDonagh
United Kingdom, 2011
A black comedy thriller with racism as the major means of laughter doesn’t necessarily sound like a great cinematic experience. Director John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard is just that, featuring an excellent cast, effectively flat and off-kilter framing, and music that embraces the genre and its anomalous locale from Calexico.
McDonagh, brother of playwright and In Bruges director Martin McDonagh, does well to have his protagonist Detective Boyle (Brendan Gleeson, Gangs of New York, In Bruges) be less crotchety old Gran Torino-style racist, and more tongue-in-cheek rebel.
Boyle is the morally bankrupt, superficially naïve, ultimately honorable policeman of a small Irish town. FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda, Crash) comes to town looking for a few big-time drug traffickers and the two men with opposite styles and methods are forced to work together.
- 9/8/2011
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
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