There’s no plot or humour in John Michael McDonagh’s misfiring buddy-cop film,which pits detectives Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård against a succession of minority punchbagsWhen our culture is finally swallowed by snark, all movies will resemble this benumbing buddy-cop facsimile, and a major misfire from The Guard’s John Michael McDonagh. Rather than a plot,McDonagh here offers a monotonous succession of low blows, pitting New Mexico detectives Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård against various minority punchbags and prompting them to gurgle insensitively – a careworn post-Gervaisian tactic that might only be excusable whether these jabs were funny. That title’s impartial warning at least, or but it’s tough to engage in any rewarding way with a film in which not a single word is meant or felt – unless McDonagh really is the worst kind of reactionary.
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Source: theguardian.com