The Guard (2011)
Directed by: John Michael McDonagh
Garda Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) pounds a lonely beat on the west coast of Ireland. This may be just as well, because Boyle is not a poster child for the Irish Tourist Board. When he’s not pocketing drugs taken from road-crash victims, he’s organising threesomes with prostitutes, although he’s as kind to them as he is to his terminally ill ma (Fionnula Flanagan). The arrival of an FBI agent (Don Cheadle, who also produced) looking for a rumoured drug shipment, plus the three heavies who are expecting to take delivery of the drugs, sets the scene for a very funny buddy action movie. Read more
