A DEA agent and a naval intelligence officer find themselves on the run
after a botched attempt to infiltrate a drug cartel. While fleeing, they
learn the secret of their shaky alliance: Neither knew that the other
was an undercover agent.
Director:
Writers:
Blake Masters (screenplay),
Steven Grant (based on the Boom! Studios graphic novels by)
Stars:
Denzel Washington,
Mark Wahlberg,
Paula Patton
Story:
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and American TV writer Blake Masters demonstrate their admiration for Hollywood crime movies by bringing together versions of Murtaugh and Riggs, the cool, cautious black cop and the reckless, wisecracking white cop from the Lethal Weapon franchise, and the ingenious plot of Don Siegel's Charley Varrick. In Siegel's 1973 classic, Walter Matthau subsidises his daytime job as a crop-dusting pilot in New Mexico by robbing small banks, only to discover that a bank he robs for a few thousand bucks is holding several hundred thousand mafia dollars ready for laundering across the Rio Grande. In 2 Guns, Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg play undercover cops – their roles concealed from each other – who plan a complicated heist at a bank in South East Texas to entrap a Mexican drugs boss.The target in both movies is called the Tres Cruces Bank, a nice homage, and Kormákur and Masters in these inflationary times turn the sum involved into $43.125m, and the duo's pursuers become the quadruple threat of a big-time Mexican cartel, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the CIA and the US navy. Washington and Wahlberg react to bullets and beatings with wisecracks, making their way through a complicated plot like Theseus through the labyrinth, and actually confront a minotaur in the form of an angry bull unleashed on them by their Mexican enemy. America's public agencies come very badly out of this slick thriller. Both Washington and Wahlberg are in sparkling form, and the truly nasty villains (Bill Paxton, James Marsden, Edward James Olmos) relish their work.
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Trailer:
Movie Rating (max. 5 Stars):
Summary:
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Box Office:
| Domestic Total as of Sep. 24, 2013: $74,595,985 | |
| Distributor: Universal | Release Date: |
| Genre: Action Comedy | Runtime: 1 hrs. 49 min. |
| MPAA Rating: R | Production Budget: $61 million |
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