Mismatched Comedy Partners In Crime

Mismatched Comedy Partners In Crime

Popping up with a brilliant, brilliant color, and the courage to fight, "Guard" is a comedy and thriller Ireland almost incidental, but often it is a sort of decoy. Tasty bait (and reluctant friends) are Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle, two of the best utility players in contemporary English-language film. Alone or in combination, can be seen the movie. Even when they are deliberately set against each other as whim, because I'm here, these are the performers, who can dig a little 'deeper than the material.

Aided and abetted by the writer and director John Michael McDonagh, M. Gleeson grabs early and run the movie. The scene opens with a car full of red, the air pump that runs after Sgt. Gerry Boyle (Gleeson), parked next to a nice quiet road. The car is fast enough to remove the trees, but not an inch totem Boyle moves fleshy face, his sleep interrupted only by the apparent explosion of press and a terrible accident. By opening the eyes lazily in the sun like a lizard, drunk, gets up and goes to ruin, after which it resumed the pockets of a dead man and his drops of acid. "I do not think your mother," that punishes the body "will be very happy about it now."

If you are looking for a little sentimental Irishman, look elsewhere or, indeed, just wait. Alternately charming and charmless, Boyle worked as a lawyer (particularly in the Guard, Care Gaelic), a part of County Galway who looks like a tourist's dream. Appearances can be deceptive (one of the lessons of the film), however, and murder, and dirty air smuggling of drugs and complicated history. Boyle did not actually violate the law to his own, hiring prostitutes for sport after school and ignoring the subtleties of normal police. Is an independent, self-anointed who loves the sound of dirty bombs words in the morning, afternoon and night, but also takes care of his ailing mother (Fionnula Flanagan).

Together with the words tickled his ear, his long string of expletives and the syntax of a strange, Mr. McDonagh will give you much to look at. Boyle sleeps Drive Green Room, and wearing matching dresses and questions about the police suspect the room vibrating with Yves Klein Blue. Interference colors - as Boyle's curse - a jolt of the film, and both of the system. The results are remotely in mind at the end of 1960 and early 1970's, gangster movies, even if filtered by Steven Soderbergh films like "Out of Sight". (This is Mr. McDonagh's debut feature guides, and he should stick to his team: photographer Larry Smith, production designer, John Paul Kelly and costume designer Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh.)

There is a story if you're looking for, but almost at once, just fine glue that holds everything together, including the beautiful voice, feeling rather broody, and fatalism that seems to come with it . Mr. McDonagh is the most fun, language, too sweet sometimes used actors and also threatens the UpStage. Vulgarity is the least we can do and sometimes detects more like tic of a writer than as an expression of true personality. (The filmmaker is also fond of profanity brother is playwright and director Martin McDonagh.) Details like a ship drug called Annabel Lee has persisted too long, and although it is fun to listen to the debate gangsters the analytical philosopher Bertrand Russell, the kind of bits seems to be intended to flatter the author or his audience.

As for the story: Mr. Cheadle, often dressed in black hat and cheerful spirit, enters as an FBI agent, Wendell Everett (perhaps a nod to actor Wendell Pierce). Everett tries to intercept a drug shipment large. He and Boyle meet cute boy hard style, with Boyle sense to express racist conference. An arrow to the right, Wendell responds with a bulging forehead and laugh in disbelief, but a friendship or at least one team was born. This is followed by many drinks, villainy - including a trio of villains played by Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham and David Wilmot - a body gone and some accessories for women who are a little more alive than dead wandering. Rogue Gleeson is a gift, however conceptually artificial light and gravity plays Mr. Cheadle is a pleasure.

"Guard" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying adult). The murder and the terrible language.

GUARD

Opens on Friday in New York and Los Angeles.

Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, director of photography, Larry Smith, edited by Chris Gill, Calexico's music, production design by John Paul Kelly, Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh costumes, produced by Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez- Marengo, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, released by Sony Pictures Classics. Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes.

WITH: Brendan Gleeson (Sergeant Gerry Boyle), Don Cheadle (Wendell Everett), Liam Cunningham (Francis Sheehy), David Wilmot (Liam O'Leary), Rory Keenan (Aidan McBride), Mark Strong (Clive Cornell), Fionnula Flanagan ( Eileen Boyle), Dominique McElligott (Aoife) and Sarah Green (Sinead).

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