The Guard

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

Don Cheadle

as FBI agent Wendell Everett

Liam Cunningham

as Francis Sheehy

Mark Strong

as Clive Cornell

Katarina Čas

as Gabriela McBride

David Wilmot

as Liam O'Leary

Rory Keenan

as Garda Aidan McBride

Laurence Kinlan

as Photographer

Dominique McElligott

as Aoife O'Carroll

Sarah Greene

as Sinead Mulligan

Reviews

Reno

**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...

CinemaSerf

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 ...

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