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The Guard

  • 7.3 /10

  • 1202

  • 94%

Plot

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.

Cast

Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle
Brendan Gleeson

as Sergeant Gerry Boyle

Don Cheadle as FBI agent Wendell Everett
Don Cheadle

as FBI agent Wendell Everett

Liam Cunningham as Francis Sheehy
Liam Cunningham

as Francis Sheehy

Mark Strong as Clive Cornell
Mark Strong

as Clive Cornell

Katarina Čas as Gabriela McBride
Katarina Čas

as Gabriela McBride

David Wilmot as Liam O'Leary
David Wilmot

as Liam O'Leary

Rory Keenan as Garda Aidan McBride
Rory Keenan

as Garda Aidan McBride

Laurence Kinlan as Photographer
Laurence Kinlan

as Photographer

Dominique McElligott as Aoife O'Carroll
Dominique McElligott

as Aoife O'Carroll

Sarah Greene as Sinead Mulligan
Sarah Greene

as Sinead Mulligan

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • July 7, 2011

Production Companies

  • Prescience

  • UK Film Council

  • Reprisal Films

  • Aegis Film Fund

  • Element Pictures

  • Crescendo Productions

  • EDS Pictures

Production Countries

  • Ireland

  • United Kingdom

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • Gaeilge

  • English

Budget

  • $6,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $19,560,274.00

Runtime

  • 1.60 hrs

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Reviews

**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 loved that film, not this one, though I consider it an average, because I did not find it bad. The…

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 racket that could involve $500m worth of cocaine. It's fair to say that "Boyle" does things very mu…