Tribeca Film Festival Recap (2): Irish Humor in John Michael McDonaugh's "The Guard" (2011)

Brendan Gleeson saves the movie. Hopefully this will not sound too harsh, but I don't really see the purpose of this movie being made, other than using Gleeson as a pure politically incorrect vector of Irish humor and decorating the scene around him with some, remotely interesting (i.e. original) crime story and pairing him up with the respectable and always quality-delivery Don Cheadle. The two have some comic chemistry, but this does not compare to the ranks of other crime / police duos. Yet again, Brendan Gleeson saves the movie.