The Guard<\/em><\/a> is a darkly funny Irish crime drama that seems to owe a debt both to American Westerns and the plays of David Mamet. (It’s the sort of movie where criminal lowlifes engage in ironic banter peppered with literary references.)\n<\/div>\nThe story takes place in Connemara, a rocky wilderness on the west coast of Ireland which was largely depopulated during the Great Famine and has never really recovered. The main character is Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), a Garda<\/em> (police officer.) He is a big dissipated man, grumpy, disreputable, bigoted and a Class A troll. However he is smarter and tougher than he looks and he has his own unique sense of honor.<\/p>\nIn this story he gets two new people to troll and two crimes to investigate. His first victim is Aidan McBride (Rory Keenan) a naive young Garda<\/em> fresh from the big city. They are soon investigating a mysterious murder with occult overtones.<\/p>\nAn even better foil is Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) a black American FBI agent who is trying to track down a drug gang that is supposedly planning to smuggle 500 million dollars worth of cocaine into the country. The interplay between these two is priceless.<\/p>\n
Could the two crimes be connected? What do you think?<\/p>\n
This movie has a wealth of colorful characters, most of whom seem to have something to hide and all of whom have a gift for colorful speech. (Except for the American who is pretty much a straight-arrow straight man. But I guess the movie needs one such character for balance.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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