The Guard

[Kaybeelon]

It's already out in Northern Ireland, which counts towards the UK box office.

Didn't Kevin answer this one earlier?!?!

Edit: Valda was faster!

[valda]

Are you seeing it Kaybeelon?

[claire]

Just finished work off to whiteleys. Hope we get in have mum and dad with me.

[tilly]

Just seen this at Wandsworth .

After seeing the trailer , I was expecting big things but was slightly disappointed. There were a couple of laugh out moments and good acting but I was bored ( maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind as my parents enjoyed it )

6/10

[brettie]

I thought the film was great, really captured the small community side of Ireland, this is how I remember the way Rosslare was in the 70s-80s and only one/two guarda for the whole area. Loved the realism, probably won't appeal to a lot of people.

[stuartboy]

Disappointing. Had a lot of potential. Quite a few good characterizations, great locations, good acting - loved the wee boy! - well filmed, good soundtrack.....but it went pretty much no-where. Useless ending. Even hung back to see it, as seems the current trend, there'd be more through or after the credits.....loks like they just ran out of money. Not going to be another Local Hero I don't think.

[Celini]

I understood about 50% of what they were saying (no offence to fellow Irishmen and women ) and I did not feel anything for any of the characters!

For Mark Strong, for the politically incorrectness (am I making up a word?) of the entire thing and for the Western score, I will give it 5.5/10
(it would probably score higher for me with subtitles!)

Nice to see Valda, Ejwrank and David :)
Prettyxcool, were the people you were talking to, little FMUKers?

[Beate]

Lovely to be at the WIQ again after a while and getting great seats at the back. I never know why the ushers downstairs have to be quite so clueless though - he didn't know the screen number and I had to phone OH to find out. Cinema filled up to about 80% capacity and I can't record any major complaints, other than that the folks next to us left an empty seat inbetween us.

This was basically In Bruges all over again, although not quite as hilarious. It was pretty funny, mind, I laughed out loud quite a few times. Brendan Gleeson basically reprised his role from In Bruges - ok so he wasn't a hitman this time round, but he still knew his way round weapons, and he swore and was as politically incorrect as ever. A particular gem was:
"He was in a wheelchair, you know, what do you call those people?"
"Paraplegic?"
"Spastic, yeah."
Or when he thought that only black or Mexican people could be drugdealers and said that as a policeman racism was part of his job description.

Don Cheadle really has no charisma so Brendan Gleeson had to carry the whole film on his broad shoulders, and he did it well. It ended a bit abruptly, but really, there wasn't any story left by that time.

7.5/10

[valda]

Just finished work off to whiteleys. Hope we get in have mum and dad with me.

Were you in the back row?

[weirdfilms33]

I liked it quite a lot. There were some great performances all round from the cast (Mark Strong being particularly ominous as usual) and some absolutely hilarious moments. I thought it was as much a human drama as a comedy, the trailer made me think it would be otherwise, but all round I thought it was a very entertaining, quite a different film. I would write more but I'm lazy.

7/10

Oh, and by the way, at the O2 there was a kid with his dad who was blatantly not a day over 11, yet they still let him in to a 15 film. Is the security looser at these free screenings?