Theo James Film ‘War on Everyone’ Showing at Sydney Film Festival

Sydney Film Festival will be running “War on Everyone” from director John Michael McDonagh and starring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña and of course, Theo James. The festival runs June 8th-19th and tickets are available! Catch Theo in this campy cop film critics say is reminiscent of 1970s American television, on June 10th at 9:15 at The State Theatre.

Check out this review and then catch Theo James in “War on Everyone.”

Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña take to their roles with gusto as Terry and Bob, two boozed-up, drug-addled and corrupt police officers who are constantly on the make. Less interested in solving crimes than in lining their pockets and finding ways to violently vent their frustrations, our anti-heroes face off against aristocratic criminal mastermind James Mangan (Theo James). Mayhem ensues, dragging the pair on an anarchic tour of blackmail, drugs, bloody million-dollar heists and a hilarious side-trip to the underbelly of Iceland. Incredibly stylish and bursting with razor-sharp and wickedly witty dialogue, John Michael McDonagh’s War On Everyone is a rip-roaring yarn that takes no prisoners.

Everything War on Everyone writer-director John Michael McDonagh knows about United States law enforcement he must have learned watching ’70s cop shows, while the rest of his outlook on the American way of life may as well have been cribbed from vintage photographs and Glen Campbell records. Not a bad mix of influences for the wicked-dark Irish satirist to recombine for his virgin foray abroad, a talky, sexy, irreverent and ultimately somewhat surreal buddy-cop movie in which two detectives one suspension shy of early retirement stick their noses into the middle of a million-dollar heist, hoping to bust the criminals and keep the loot for themselves… McDonagh writes his clever, coal-black heart out, delivering another firecracker script… — Peter Debruge, Variety

Terry & Bob: tougher than Starsky & Hutch, funnier than Laurel & Hardy and better looking than Siegfried & Roy. — Berlinale