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A shipload of cocaine worth $500Million 'Street Value' is coming into Ireland, and the only people who can stop it is Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) and FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle).Wendell is a straight laced privileged guy on a mission. Gerry is an irreverent drug-doing whore-doing racist-commenting loudmouth cop. So Wendell takes him as an idiot at first. But it's soon obvious to Wendell that Gerry is the smartest guy in the room and he knows all the local players.Brendan Gleeson has created one of the funniest raunchiest cop character ever. Where else are you going can dialog like this? "I'm old enough to be your father." "Well, you can think about that while you're f**king us, if that turns you on."

Brendan Gleeson stars as a small town Sgt. in Ireland. In many ways he reminded me of Andy of Mayberry in that he has his own local quirky ways of doing things, but beneath it all he is quite intelligent. There are some international drug smugglers in his area and the FBI has sent Don Cheadle to work with the very frank, sometimes crass Gleeson who believes racial stereotypes and has no problems questioning Cheadle to the point of his frustration.The writing is witty and the quirky characters are reminiscent of a Coen brothers masterpiece.Cheadle is talking about the recent killing to Gleeson:CHEADLE: "We need to go door to door and ask people if they saw anything."GLEESON: "You lost me at 'we'".CHEADLE: "You and I need...GLEESON: "It's my day off."Effective use of sound track. Great script. Funny. Clever.F-bomb, no nudity, adult situations.

One of the funniest and most original movies I've seen. The dialogue is just brilliant and the casting spot on - A truly wonderful experience and definitely one of 2011's best films.