War on Everyone

War on Everyone is a 2016 British black comedy buddy cop film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh.

Terry Monroe and Bob Bolaño, two corrupt cops, return to the Albuquerque police force after being suspended for assaulting a racist coworker.

Bolaño and Monroe regularly assault, rob and extort criminals, accept bribes, and take drugs.

While surveilling small time thieves, the two come to believe Jimmy Harris, a local criminal, is planning a heist.

They contact one of Harris' former associates, Reggie, and coerce him into revealing information by threatening to falsely arrest him.

Reggie and his friend, Irishman Pádraic Power, identify Clifford Reynard, a getaway driver, and tell them Harris' girlfriend, Jackie Hollis, used to dance at a strip club owned by Russell Birdwell.

Meanwhile, Birdwell tells his boss, James Mangan, a knighted British businessman who is in charge of the heist, that the cops have been asking about Hollis.

Mangan beheads Power and contacts the cops, hoping to entrap them with an offer of sharing the money.

[5][6] The film was scheduled to be released in Ireland and the United Kingdom on 30 September 2016, before being pushed back to 7 October to avoid competition with Deepwater Horizon and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and was then set to compete against the UK release of Blood Father.

The website's consensus reads: "War on Everyone boasts just enough dark humor and infectious energy to make this somewhat middling entry from writer-director John Michael McDonagh an entertaining diversion.

"[9] Peter Debruge, Variety chief international film critic said, "McDonagh writes his clever, coal-black heart out, delivering another firecracker script, whose explosively entertaining execution boasts considerably more commercial potential than his previous two indies, Calvary and The Guard.

"[10] Vanity Fair wrote: "The opening sequences of War on Everyone are so furiously fast and funny it's nearly unimaginable that McDonagh can sustain the pace.