London Irish writer/director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard, Calvary) has unexpectedly set his third film, War on Everyone, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has also hugely ramped up the violence, speed and verbosity.
This is a really bad cop movie, maybe the funniest ever. Terry (Alexander Skarsgard, drunk and shambling, but still a giant hunk) is teamed up with Bob (Michael Pena, End of Watch, superb, in a lead at last) as a pair of corrupt, thieving and feckless detectives on final notice, who just don’t care what they do or what the consequences are, talking up a storm as they take on evil English aristocrat Mangan (Divergent’s Theo James, so snotty) and his pervy sidekick (Caleb Landry Jones).
It’s utterly irresponsible, completely hilarious, brilliantly scripted, right up there with the very best of Quentin Tarantino, even Elmore Leonard: a hoot.
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