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| Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård - War on Everyone |
John Michael McDonagh's latest film, War on Everyone is reminiscent of a Tarantino style of storytelling rather than his earlier black humoured films, The Guard and Calvary. This film is a fast-paced, action packed 'shoot-em first' film with sharp dialogue and plenty of gratuitous violence.
The storyline is centred on Detectives Terry Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård) and Bob Bolano (Michael Peña), a pair of corrupt, boozed up police officers who display little interest in solving crimes as much as they do with lining their pockets from various scams. When British aristocratic criminal, Lord James Mangan (Theo James) masterminds a major heist on their territory, the two anti-heroes are determined to find the culprits and recover the million dollars for themselves. Anarchy ensues with blackmail, drugs and shoot-outs just some of the action as this unlikely pair of 'law' enforcers roll across New Mexico to Iceland in hot pursuit of their target.
Skarsgård and Peña are well cast as the odd couple of policing (Starsky and Hutch they are not) and New Mexico the perfect setting for wreaking havoc. The film does not have the same level of nuances and satire of The Guard nor the darkness of Calvary so McDonagh's script varies from his previous work. It is nonetheless an easy film to watch with more than a few laughs (in the best of Irish irony).
Skarsgård and Peña are well cast as the odd couple of policing (Starsky and Hutch they are not) and New Mexico the perfect setting for wreaking havoc. The film does not have the same level of nuances and satire of The Guard nor the darkness of Calvary so McDonagh's script varies from his previous work. It is nonetheless an easy film to watch with more than a few laughs (in the best of Irish irony).
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