War on Everyone (2016)
Directed by John Michael McDonagh
Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he?
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His American debut and first feature film without star Brendan Gleeson – following The Guard and Calvary – finds him aping In Bruges , the modern classic directed by his brother, Martin McDonagh.
John Michael McDonagh stepped out from the shadows of filmmaker young brother Martin McDonagh, who’s crafted such cult modern classics as In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths , in 2011 when he debuted The Guard .
I’m such a huge fan of both of the McDonagh boys — playwright turned writer-director Martin (“In Bruges”, “Seven Psychopaths”) and his brother John Michael (“Calvary,” “The Guard”) that I’m willing to write-off “War on Everyone” as a pastiche that didn’t pay off.
John Michael McDonagh is, incidentally, the brother of director/playwright Michael McDonagh, the man responsible for Seven Psychopaths and Pajiba favorite In Bruges .
Martin McDonagh went from the great In Bruges to the indulgently amusing, if lesser Hollywood underworld caper Seven Psychopaths.
It’s the latest from John Michael McDonagh (“The Guard,” “Cavalry”), and you can tell: It betrays his gift for wordplay, his yen for nasty hairpin turns (if not as grisly as the plays and films by his brother, Martin, of “In Bruges”), his way of doodling with philosophy in a way that’s half a joke, half sincere.
John Michael McDonagh stepped out from the shadows of filmmaker young brother Martin McDonagh, who’s crafted such cult modern classics as In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths , in 2011 when he debuted The Guard .
I’m such a huge fan of both of the McDonagh boys — playwright turned writer-director Martin (“In Bruges”, “Seven Psychopaths”) and his brother John Michael (“Calvary,” “The Guard”) that I’m willing to write-off “War on Everyone” as a pastiche that didn’t pay off.
We saw glimpses of this in Seven Psychopaths, but War On Everyone puts the icing on the cake in terms of cringe.
John Michael McDonagh is, incidentally, the brother of director/playwright Michael McDonagh, the man responsible for Seven Psychopaths and Pajiba favorite In Bruges .
Martin McDonagh went from the great In Bruges to the indulgently amusing, if lesser Hollywood underworld caper Seven Psychopaths.
Enter John Michael McDonagh, brother of fellow writer-director Martin McDonagh ( In Bruges , Seven Psychopaths ) and known for brusque Irish affairs like The Guard and Calvary .
A compendium of strained talk and post-Tarantino clichés, this is a deeply disappointing new picture by the writer and director John Michael McDonagh, whose first two movies — “ The Guard ” and “ Calvary ” — popped with bright colors, splenetic jokes and actual ideas about people and the world.
His American debut and first feature film without star Brendan Gleeson – following The Guard and Calvary – finds him aping In Bruges, the modern classic directed by his brother, Martin McDonagh.
While I’d certainly say that War on Everyone is the weakest of John Michael McDonagh’s filmography, it’s still a rollicking good time at the movies that feels much closer to action beats of The Guard than the moral and religious quandary of Calvary .
I’m such a huge fan of both of the McDonagh boys — playwright turned writer-director Martin (“In Bruges”, “Seven Psychopaths”) and his brother John Michael (“Calvary,” “The Guard”) that I’m willing to write-off “War on Everyone” as a pastiche that didn’t pay off.
The third film from John Michael McDonagh ( The Guard , Calvary ) is bitingly funny and unapologetically offensive.
In his two previous efforts, 2011’s The Guard and 2014’s Calvary , he held the backward minded views of small town Irish folk under a microscope, equally scrutinising them and daring to examine the root cause of their viewpoints.