The Guard: movie review
If you had to cast an actor to play a West Country Irish policeman, who better than Brendan Gleeson?
That鈥檚 the good news.
What isn鈥檛 so good is the movie he stars in, 鈥淭he Guard,鈥� where he teams up with Don Cheadle, playing an FBI agent, as they attempt to block a huge shipment of cocaine off the Irish coast.
Director-screenwriter John Michael McDonagh tries to push the odd-couple chemistry, but it鈥檚 a no-go. He also tricks out the film with jokey references to spaghetti westerns and has the drug dealers improbably pepper their dialogue with references to Bertrand Russell and Nietzsche.
This black comedy needed to be a whole lot blacker and funnier.
