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The Guard Reviews

Mar 17, 2025

Brendan Gleeson from “Banshees of Inisherin” was great! Don Cheadle from the MCU was good too. The movie was about cops in Ireland taking down criminals. This was a nice comedy and I enjoyed the scenes of Ireland.

Jan 19, 2025

Short, funny, and interesting throughout. A very enjoyable movie.

Oct 26, 2024

If you can bear the incessant and mostly unnecessary foul language, it really is a quite a good film. Superb acting from all the cast, sometimes quite poignant, other times quite funny, certainly watchable.

Aug 17, 2024

Refreshing, original (!!), special kind of humour, great photography and colours. A sort of more refined Guy Ritchie kind of movie.

Aug 3, 2024

Genetically-shared Ireland’s localized chronicles become active through a distinctively tonal, humorously subversive spin of the buddy cop genre, benefitting from the main duo’s ethical clashes to pull off how well-written and -performed this enjoyable case is. (B)

Feb 25, 2024

What a quirky, original movie with interesting characters. Fun to watch. I highly recommend it.

Feb 4, 2024

Droll sense of humor with very authentic voices of all in plot and characters.plus slight mock art film markers and Cheadle and Gleeson are brilliant

Jan 21, 2024

Smashing, loved it. The end gets a little drawn out, still a great watch!

Jan 21, 2024

so funny and so fun Brendan Gleeson is quite an eccentric Irish policeman who is such a sourpuss and a bit of a pessimist I especially love when he and Don Cheadle are on screen cause the dynamics work I like Mark Strong too but he should have been the bigger villain in the picture as the film goes along you do get to know the policeman and why he's so uptight the scenery is just magnificient and alot of the humor adds punch to the script genuine laughs and WTF moments

Jan 14, 2024

Brilliant dark comedy with excellent cast.

Dec 18, 2023

This movie is damn bloody awesome.

Jul 19, 2023

Totally funny and as gritty as they get--You WILL enjoy this film.

Jun 15, 2023

The unlikely pairing of Cheadle and Murphy works in this clever and witty black comedy on murder and corruption.

Mar 26, 2023

Quirky and funny. The Guard Boyle is a booze guzzling old boy with questionable ethics and you can't guess what decisions he'll make.

Mar 25, 2023

Not the typical cop duo film. A "buddy" cop vision that is considerably turned on it's head and is rife with sly black comedic jabs. Features the delightful Brendan Gleeson as an amusingly complex and obnoxious Irish police officer. That alone should be enough to sway anyone towards this brief and breezy flick.

Feb 2, 2023

Excellent offbeat Irish comedy thriller. Quirky and very witty, if controversial, dialogue. Brendan Gleeson carries the film and is brilliant throughout. Think In Bruges meets Father Ted. Fabulous!

Jan 30, 2023

Hillarious Film . Had me in stitches that ain't easy to do .

Nov 29, 2022

Not as polished nor as funny as In Bruges and Banshees of Inisherin

Nov 1, 2022

Witty, dark and superbly acted. Absolute gem

Jun 12, 2022

Tip top film. Acting, characters, story, the ending... the lot

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