2 Guns (2013)

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This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

'2 Guns' is a middling comedy/action buddy cop movie that's already been done a million times before, and in many cases a lot better. It's the type of film that you watch passively, without caring much for any of what happens, and then forget that you even watched it come the next day. It's moderately entertaining though, with some well-crafted action scenes and the odd decent laugh, but nothing to make you sit up and take notice.This film could have been a lot worse if it wasn't for Wahlberg and Washington's on screen chemistry. In many ways their entertaining partnership distracts us from the generic material and plot and is one of the film's few positives. Other than that, '2 Guns' is a very average and instantly forgettable action flick. A decent time passer, but nothing more.

This was exactly how I thought it might be, an old-school, double trouble, hard hitting, guns blazing, action comedy :) Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg actually works out quite well together, better then I had expected, their different styles goes together in each their own crazy character way and that is just fun to watch.This was a fast moving and entertaining film in many ways, some might find it quick and dirty or even too much and superficial, but I liked it, just watch it with the promise of lots of action, big mouthing and guns blazing then you will not be disappointed that is for sure.I don't know what else to say, then watch it, be happy and enjoy, it is what comedy action should be.

2 Guns starts great from its opening scene, which sets the audience a challenge - can you grow to like these men? Sat in a diner ahead of a bank robbery, Bobby Trench (Washington) and Michael Stigman (Wahlberg) indulge in a tense back-and-forth about their breakfast orders and Stigman's regular flirting with waitresses.It's clear we're meant to see Stigman as a chatty but dim stooge to Washington's irascible elder and let the 'witty' repartee carry us through the film's later formulaic motions. The problem is, it's a little hard to care about either of these unpleasant criminals and even when truths emerge later about the pair, it hardly increases your emotional connection to the film. Overall 2 Guns delivers on action, comedy and is a fun thrill ride.

"Make it rain." If you are in the mood for a minor diversion, then "2 Guns" should fit the bill. Denzel is a DEA agent, Walhberg working Navy intelligence, Paula Patton and Robert John Burke DEA colleagues of Denzel, Edward James Olmos as Mexican drug-lord, James Marsden as a corrupt Navy officer, and Bill Paxton as crooked CIA agent. The cast is certainly stacked with talent, including Fred Ward, even, as a Navy Admiral who looks the other way even though Marsden is admittedly involved in corruption and Wahlberg was in the right by bringing the news to him. The plot has the MacGuffen of 42 Million…money of the CIA that was thought to be Olmos'. So the money is stolen from a bank by Wahlberg and Denzel but they are stunned to learn that this is not just drug cartel green. Everyone desires the money, of course, and by film's end there are a lot of people dead because of their avarice. This is a film where no one can be trusted due to the cash, but ultimately we at least have the two heroes to root due to their integrity and courage as the violence presents itself time and again in their direction. Washington is the intense part of the duo, cerebral and wise, while Wahlberg is the wise-cracking soldier with a marksman shot that doesn't miss. Patton is the wild card as her loyalties soon come into question while Marsden is that clean-cut scumbag with the wickedness that shows up despite the Navy bravado. Paxton is quite homicidal here as the CIA agent with the look of a creep duststop sheriff, who uses Russian roulette as an interrogation technique. Olmos is the sleazy drug-lord in the fancy white digs who has accumulated a robust bull ranch and marginal relationship with the US government regarding money laundering and exchange from different areas. This film has lots of guns firing ammunition, the usual speeding chases and vehicular destruction, and fun banter back and forth between the charismatic leads seeming to be having a good time. Patton is an absolute fox, Olmos is the recipient and deliverer of a beatdown by and to the leads, Marsden unveils the devil behind the handsome exterior, Paxton steals scenes as this mustachioed, silver-buckled, Cheshire-cat-grinning hunter of money that belongs to his government, and Ward's cameo tells you all you need to know about certain amoral authority figures with little regard for the truth when it comes to the proper image of the Navy (or any military/government institution). Wahlberg's all tongue-in-cheek, bubble-gum chewing, and matching barbs with Washington who has now developed the effortless ease that films like "2 Guns" benefit from thanks to his immense star power. All that money going up in a cloud of exploding Impala is a hoot as the bullets fly.