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Watch the ante-upping first trail­er for War on Everyone

20 Jun 2016

Words by Sophie Yapp

Alexan­der Skars­gård and Michael Peña observe law and dis­or­der in this peri­od bud­dy comedy.

In real­i­ty, the prospect of entrenched cor­rup­tion with­in the police force is not exact­ly a com­fort­ing one. On screen, how­ev­er, it’s some­thing quite dif­fer­ent. Irish writer/​director John Michael McDonagh’s high­ly antic­i­pat­ed third fea­ture, War on Every­one, fol­lows the mis­ad­ven­tures of two bent cop­pers, Bob Bal­año (Michael Peña) and Ter­ry Mon­roe (Alexan­der Skars­gård), who rev­el in fram­ing and black­mail­ing the crim­i­nals of Albu­querque, New Mexico.

Fol­low­ing his world­wide hit com­e­dy The Guard and crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed dra­ma Cal­vary, McDonagh’s dis­tinc­tive wit looks to have come into its own in this sweary action com­e­dy. It real­ly does speak vol­umes when two police offi­cers crowd­ed in a toi­let cubi­cle (with the crim­i­nal whose drugs they are now tak­ing) hear sirens and shout Shit, cops!” only to remem­ber that they are in fact the cops. On that reas­sur­ing note, here’s a new trail­er for the film.

War on Every­one is in cin­e­mas 30 September.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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