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The Guard (2011) 7.3
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7.3/10 from 38,986 users
Metascore: 78/100
Reviews: 114 user | 246 critic | 29 from Metacritic.com An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring. Director:John Michael McDonaghWriter:John Michael McDonagh |
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Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door. Written by Element Pictures
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The FBI are about to discover that things work a little different around here.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for pervasive language, some violence, drug material and sexual content | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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IrelandRelease Date:
7 July 2011 (Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
El irlandés See more »Box Office
Budget:
$6,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$76,834 (USA) (29 July 2011)Gross:
$5,359,774 (USA) (3 February 2012)Company Credits
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FBI agent Wendell Everett: Oh, fuck you, Sergeant!
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Traditional arrangements by Liam Clancy, Pat Clancy and Tommy Makem
Performed by Liam Clancy
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Sgt. Boyle's quote, "the last of the independents," refers to the movie, and the character, Charley Varrick. See more »Goofs
When swimming in the sea Gerry has no gloves and cold red hands. On emerging from the sea to greet Wendell he is wearing wet suit gloves. See more »Quotes
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, these men are armed and dangerous, and you being an FBI agent you're more used to shooting at unarmed women and children...FBI agent Wendell Everett: Oh, fuck you, Sergeant!
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"The Parting Glass"Traditional arrangements by Liam Clancy, Pat Clancy and Tommy Makem
Performed by Liam Clancy
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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.