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The Guard

Movie
2011
1h 36m
R
English
Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime
User Score: 
7.5
Critic Score: 
86
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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.
The Guard Poster

The Guard

R
Movie
2011
1h 36m
English
Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime
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.
Rating
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7.5
IMDB
The Guard (2011) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
86

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Brendan Gleeson
Sergeant Gerry Boyle
Don Cheadle
FBI agent Wendell Everett
Liam Cunningham
Francis Sheehy
Mark Strong
Clive Cornell
Katarina as
Gabriela McBride
David Wilmot
Liam O'Leary
Rory Keenan
Garda Aidan McBride
Laurence Kinlan
Photographer
Dominique McElligott
Aoife O'Carroll
Sarah Greene
Sinead Mulligan
Fionnula Flanagan
Eileen Boyle
Gary Lydon
Garda Inspector Gerry Stanton
Mchel g Lane
Eugene Moloney
Mark OHalloran
Garda No. 1
Owen Sharpe
Billy Devaney
Wale Ojo
Doctor Oleyuwo
Darren Healy
Jimmy Moody
Conor Moloney
Detective
Laura Hitchings
Female Garda
Pat Shortt
Colum Hennessey
Directed By: John Michael McDonagh
Written By: John Michael McDonagh (Screenplay)

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hirkiti says...
one year ago
Great little film all around. Acting is top notch, characters are great, super funny at times. Could be a Cohen Brothers movie. If you like dark humor and a bit of crassness you’ll be like a pig in… I’ve watched it there times and plan on watching it many more.
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wyrme says...
3 years ago
Abrasive complex characters, with good banter between the leads, as well as good banter between the antagonists. Interesting themes of nihilism.
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hgram says...
6 months ago
Love me some philosophical gangsters. Very curious what it must've been like growing up in the McDonagh household. "He was a—what, uh, what d'you call it?" "Uh, paraplegic?" "Spastic, yeah." "Maybe this is the killers five and a halfth victim." "Go on." "Maybe he's killed four people before now, and he's maimed another lad. Cut off his legs, maybe. Which would be the half. So this would be victim number five and a half." "Ah, man, that was fuckin' years ago. I mean, I thought that had all been forgotten about. Same thing happened to Polanski." "What was it, a sheep or something?" "It was a llama. You know, I didn't even know it was illegal to interfere with a llama, did you?" "I would have assumed so, Billy. I mean, what would its parents think?" Some other great lines: "I'm Irish, sir! Racism is part of my culture." "I like sharks. They're soothing." "I've always wanted a giraffe." "I'm on tablets, like, for distress. Lithium." "They're always fuckin' overestimating!"
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KurtMoney says...
8 years ago
Fun movie. Didn't expect so much meta crime movie stuff but it was great. Gotta admit though I didn't understand 50% of the words spoken in this thing. The accents man oh man the accents. That's all my fault though.
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Featured User Reviews

CinemaSerf
2 weeks ago
I couldn't help but wonder just how much acting Brendan Gleeson was actually doing here! He really does look like he's enjoying himself as the irreverent Garda officer "Boyle" whose sleepy Irish community finds itself embroiled in an FBI investigation led by "Everett" (Don Cheadle) into a smuggling More
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Reno
6 years ago
**An ordinary cop, enjoying his single life, gets into a real cop business!**

I won't say it is an overrated film, but it simply did not work for me. The same director who had made 'Calvary' directed this one as well with Brendon Gleeson in the lead, but that was an earlier project to this one. I More
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