War on Everyone

[Harpo Speaks]

This was an almost complete misfire by John Michael McDonagh after the excellent Calvary. Suffers from the fatal flaw of thinking it's about ten times witter and edgier than it actually is.

The script is aching to be Tarantino or Shane Black, but can't get close to being either, and the attempts to be 'edgy' amount to pointing to a minority on screen and hoping that no further writing is required to elicit some sort of reaction from the audience.

Anyone seen this yet?

[Head Gardener]

saw it on Monday and you are right, it's rubbish

[Dr Syntax Head]

That is a shame actually. I hope you're both wrong but y'know, I won't hold my breath.

As soon as something gets describes as tarantinoesque I switch off

[Glebe]

Have noticed it's getting some poor reviews. Ah well.

[hewantstolurkatad]

I said this in the previous thread, but a big chunk of the positive reviews for Calvary were very very very focused on Brendan Gleason and not especially positive of anything else. Remove him and both of those would've been pretty marmitey, imo; I'd imagine there's a good chance if you liked the writing in the Guard and Calvary that this'll be more of the same to some degree?

[non capisco]

Not as irreverent as it thinks it is and not as amusing as it needs to be. Utter load of numbing, unfunny shit.  Loved 'Calvary' and 'The Guard' too.

[Sam]

The Guard is an incredibly good film. Calvary was uneven but ambitious and had lots of fantastic bits. I'm sure I'll find the positive in this film but it looks like each film is less good than the last, unfortunately.