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The Guard is a comedic, fish out of H2O story of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking, and farming military corruption. Two cops (Gleeson and Cheadle) one an unusual Irish policeman and a other, a straitlaced FBI agent, contingency join army to take on an general drug-smuggling gang.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1510 in DVD
- Brand: Sony
- Released on: 2012-01-03
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English, Portuguese
- Running time: 96 minutes
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Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) of Galway is pretentious and disintegrating and interprets a law a bit freely, all to stately comic effect. Paired with puritanical American FBI representative Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle), Boyle seeks to solve a integrate of murders and interrupt a large drug conveyance in what could have been a tacky fish-out-of-water friend comedy--but, by a multiple of pointy and smart writing, ruthlessly rapid editing, and understated though spot-on performances,
The Guard is a marvel of character-based storytelling. Gleeson (
28 Days Later,
In Bruges) and Cheadle are unequaled actors, a kind who frequency star in blockbusters though who move energetic life to any stage they're in. The ancillary expel is crowded of off-kilter talent, branch even a many immaterial purpose into a noted character. Writer-director John Michael McDonagh creates a remarkably achieved underline debut;
The Guard moves brazen with retaining efficiency, nonetheless each impulse seems infrequent and mostly beside a point, congested with colorful language, immaterial comedy, and a deliciously heterogeneous soundtrack. The outcome is hugely entertaining. One of a best films of 2011.
--Bret Fetzer 
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4 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
No nation for core aged men
By L. Power
32 of 38 people found a following examination helpful: Reviewed Sep 8, 2011. Original reviews of this product have been deleted by Amazon.
Michael John McDonagh formerly wrote a screenplay for Ned Kelly starring Heath Ledger that we remember as a good movie. His hermit Martin has won an Academy Award nomination, for Best Original Screenplay for In Bruges, that also starred Brendan Gleeson, and what we cruise a best opening of Colin Farrell's career, and an Academy endowment for a brief underline Six Shooter, A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films, also starring Brendan Gleeson, and during slightest dual other characters we will see in The Guard, created and destined by MJ.
As a film starts we see Gerry Boyle, a ensure played by BG, in his white patrol automobile parked behind a mill wall, when a red automobile whizzes by. He does not respond to a speeding car. His response to what happens next, has no words, nonetheless it establishes a inlet of a character, as he rummages by pockets, and does something with a drugs. We can ascertain that here is a ensure that does not follow a determined rules, and in fact might even be corrupt.
Next we see him responding to a murder scene. Here we get a truer clarity of his impression by how he acts around a new patrolman who will be his partner. Here a comedic tinge of a film gets established. He likes to pull buttons and get a reaction. They theorize about a murder, a potted plant placed on a victim's crotch, a stress of a series 5 1/2 embellished on a wall. Perhaps he was a 5 1/2th victim, a immature one theorises.
Like another reviewer we was struck by a parallels with a Coen Brothers, quite Fargo, and No Country For Old Men. Instead of a empty landscapes of Minnesota, and a quirky Nordic accents of Minnesotans, we have a swamp landscape of a Wesht of Ireland, and a quirks and mores of a locals. We have sociopathic criminals. We also have a quirky Spaghetti Western music, reinforcing a mocking tone. We also have a snippet of Ryan's Daughter, and a half burst immature kid on a bike, who mirrors John Hurt's impression in that movie. We have ruthless criminals who discuss their favorite philosophers as they expostulate along.
So, pickle laced, by a book FBI representative Wendell Evers played by Don Cheadle, moseys into town, prohibited on a route of an ubiquitous bootlegging ring anticipating to land half a billion dollars value of drugs in Ireland. Instantly, this sets adult a enlightenment clash, with Boyle creation racially unresponsive comments. When rebuked, his response. "I'm Irish. Racism is partial of a culture."
When Boyle is by himself he wanders his residence in his red or yellow y fronts scratching. He does not seem like a shining cop. However, not following a book, opens adult levels of resourcefulness for him. Guards don't lift firearms in Ireland, nonetheless in a prophetic proceed he manages to acquire weapons, donating a change to a internal IRA male who wears a cowboy hat. With his ostensible amorality, we consternation if when pull comes to shove, he will behind off and let a criminals do their thing or if he will intervene.
Perhaps my favorite scene, a second derringer scene, suggestive of identical scenes during a commencement of Inglorious Basterds, and final stage with Woody Harrelson in No Country for Old Men. Life and genocide hangs in a balance.
Boyle tells Evers he came fourth in swimming in a Olympics, that finished me hunt a internet after a movie. The answer might warn you.
Another thesis is a nihilism, that is that events have no fundamental meaning, a unchanging thesis in several Coen Brothers movies.
For non Irish speakers, a FBI investigator attempts during one indicate to talk some Irish vocalization people. In debate they impute to him as fear gorm, that a underline translates as black man. The word gorm indeed means blue. If we were observant it literally, it would be fear dubh (pronounced distant duhve).
I know that some people explain that they can't know unfamiliar accents. Where on earth do we hear some-more unfamiliar accents than in North America on a daily basis? If we travel a streets of San Francisco, we will hear German, English, Chinese, Filipino, Mexican, South American, we name it. So, we have Oprah Winfrey, or Sigourney Weaver, narrating BBC constructed documentaries since producers consider business can't discern an English accent. The English in this film is good oral with a slight accent. West might be conspicuous Wesht, usually like Sean Connery doesn't contend accent, he says ackshent. Even Schwarzenegger was not a administrator of California, he was a administrator of Callie phone ee yeah.
I saw this during Robert Redford's Sundance Theater in San Francisco. It was an afternoon show, and a domestic incorrectness, and several American cocktail enlightenment references, and fun poking commments resonated with a audience.
If we wish to see Brendan Gleeson in another movie, we suggest John Boorman's The General, where he plays Martin Cahill formed on a genuine life Irish gangster.
So, we desired this movie. we consider many people will feel a same way, and we consider we have seen a good new talent with Michael John McDonagh, in a unequivocally considerable initial tour as director. It's transparent that talent runs in this family, and maybe they see parallels between themselves as brothers, and a Coen Brothers. we don't consider such a comparison is grandiose, and we consternation if they will work together on destiny projects. we trust that 'genius, in sequence to be emulated, contingency initial be imitated.'
Update. 11/30/11. Last week, on my moody behind to San Francisco, we watched a module about a creation of The Guard, that has spin a tip grossing Irish finished film ever during a Irish box bureau grossing 4.3 million Euros, violence a prior best, The breeze That Shakes The Barley, starring Cillian Murphy. To put this this in an American context, it's about $1.50 for each man, lady and child in a country.
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1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
A dim comedy with a good story line!
By jjceo
Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleason) is an Irish patrolman in a tiny district. He is a severe cut of a male who drinks, swears like a soldier and likes a whores. His inquisitive impression is off a wall yet he gets a pursuit done. While questioning a murder he gets teamed adult with an FBI representative Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to assistance examine a drug bootlegging intrigue value $500,000,000 dollars. It seems that roughly everybody concerned is on a take with that kind of income on a table.
Despite his apparent faults, Officer Boyle has his ethics and is ripped over what to do. In a difference of FBI representative Wendell Everett, Officer Boyle is possibly a dumbest or a smartest chairman he has ever met. You'll have to be a judge.
This is a dim comedy with a lot of carnage and a LOT of obscenities. The F-bomb is used substantially over 100 times. If we can get over a denunciation afterwards we comprehend a story is flattering good. The behaving and view of Ireland was good done. we didn't rate it aloft as a obscenities were usually over a top.
3 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
A miraculous gem of black-humor and singular characters - Fargo in coastal Ireland
By Whitt Patrick Pond
The Guard, a tiny eccentric film from Ireland created and destined by John Michael McDonagh, is something of a gem. On a surface, it could tumble into any series of a common categories - crime drama, fish-out-of-water story, peculiar integrate forced to work together friend crack - yet nothing of those labels would do it correct justice. The closest thing we can truly review it to is a Coen brothers' film Fargo. Like Fargo, The Guard deals with a carnage in a still farming area (in this box coastal Ireland instead of Minnesota) being investigated by a internal management (in this box an particular Garda - Irish policeman - instead of a rarely profound sheriff). But also like Fargo, what creates a film truly enchanting is a impression studies that reveal as we see both sides - a military and a criminals - going about their missions.
And in a final comparison to Fargo and to Coen brothers films in general, a discourse is frequently priceless. At a film's core is a ensure of a title, Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), an Irish policeman stationed in a district of Connemara on a western seashore of Ireland. In a opening scene, where Boyle witnesses a automobile collision on a farming highway where some internal youths are killed, we fast learn 3 things about Boyle - unequivocally tiny ever rattles him, he's unequivocally some-more attuned to a suggestion of a law than a letter, and he's distant from being above a occasional bit of self indulgence. Shortly after that, when he's questioning an apparent murder and carrying to mangle in a new partner, Aidan McBride (Rory Keenan) during a same time, we learn something else about Boyle: he delights in being a crude, rude, pain in a donkey to usually about everyone, deliberately goading or inspiring people usually to see how they'll react.
The tract deepens when an American FBI agent, Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) shows up, tracking an ubiquitous drug-smuggling operation who's rumored to be in a district formulation a drop, and it turns out that Boyle's murder plant is connected to a drug gang. From that indicate things fast spin a mixed of murder, bribery, extort and dishonesty as Boyle and Everett try to tighten in on a squad before a dump can be pulled off and a squad in spin does all they can to get a dual out of a proceed so that they can make their pick-up yet interference.
But it's a characters and their interactions along a proceed that unequivocally expostulate The Guard and make it a cut above a common crime play fare. Gleeson's Boyle is a pleasure to watch - swapping between desirable and supportive one impulse and poke-in-the-eye descent a subsequent - and we can tell Gleeson is carrying a lot of fun personification him, like when a freckle-faced child asks him what a derringer he found is for and Boyle replies "It's for sharpened tiny Protestants." A touching sub-plot reveals nonetheless another side to Boyle. His mother, Eileen (marvelously played by Fionnula Flanagan) is in a internal hospice, apparently with some form of depot cancer. The scenes between mom and son are both darkly humorous and moving, and we can see where Boyle gets his life-on-my-terms proceed to things.
Don Cheadle's by-the-book straight-laced Everett is a true male to many of Boyle's jabs yet he handles a purpose well, handling to be humorous yet being ridiculous. One good stage comes when Everett finally sees by Boyle's "Ugly Irishman" diversion and Boyle realizes it and usually grins, a sell all by facial expressions. Another good stage has Everett tromping by a Connemara panorama perplexing to doubt residents who exclude to pronounce to him in anything yet Gaelic (translated in subtitles so that we know what they're observant while Everett does not, adding to a comic effect).
The members of a drug squad - dual Irishmen, Francis Sheehy (Liam Cunningham) and Liam O'Leary (David Wilmot), and an Englishman, Clive Cornell (a stand-out opening by Mark Strong) - are quite enchanting in their scenes. Like one where they're pushing along murdering time debating a merits of several philosophers formed on nationality, or another where they're in a internal aquarium and Cornell is staring solemnly during a potion and comments "I like sharks. They're... soothing." Or nonetheless another where Cornell delivers a pay-off and flies into a devastatingly spiteful diatribe when asked if a money's all there. Other characters supplement to a color, including a cowboy-hat wearing IRA male broke over a blank cache of weapons, a pale-faced camera-flashing internal girl who apparently has a illusion for crime scenes, a pint-sized child unhappy that Cheadle's FBI male isn't with a Behavioral Science Unit he's seen on TV (apparently a usually thing that's going to stir anyone in a district), and a integrate of happy uniformed prostitutes who liven adult Boyle's day off.
About a usually cautions we would discuss are that a accents - Irish and English - are a bit on a thick side, and a finale does engage one obscure outcome. It's good set adult and we could come down on possibly side of it, yet it's deliberately left unclear.
Other than that though, we rarely suggest The Guard as a film good value throwing and John Michael McDonagh as a writer/director value following.
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