The Guard

[Nerf]

Saw this at a local theater that only plays independent films this weekend, and it was pretty fucking awesome.  I'm usually one to stray away from "but it won award at <insert film festival here>!" movies, but this one delivered.

Go see it if you've got the chance, it was just pretty   throughout.

The Guard is a comedic fish-out-of-water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption. Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleason) is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it. When a fellow police officer disappears and Boyle's small town becomes key to a large drug trafficking investigation, he is forced to at least feign interest when dealing with the humorless FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) assigned to the case. -- (C) Sony Pictures

[Sand]

OMG Nerf is alive!   

[Tale]

This is from the people behind In Bruges.

Just saw a review on the local TV movie show. Both reviewers gave it 4/5. I'll see this.

[Nerf]

This is from the people behind In Bruges.

Just saw a review on the local TV movie show. Both reviewers gave it 4/5. I'll see this.

Not a single mention of alcoves anywhere, bastards.  I haven't seen In Bruges in awhile, but I don't seem to remember liking it as much as this.

[Arthur_Parker]

I didn't like the Guard nearly as much as I expected to.

The Guard is the biggest Independent Irish film of all time

[Jeff Kelly]

Just saw it today. We just decided to see it on a whim and it was hilarious.

Definitely recommend it.