Last night I went to see 2 Guns.
It stars Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington, isn’t that enough? Not a spoiler alert: a DEA agent and Navy intelligence officer are on the run after they screw up an attempt to infiltrate a drug cartel. The best part, they don’t know the other is in law enforcement, they have both been tasked with getting close with each other and then basically take the other out.
It’s funny and lots of good gunplay. Isn’t that funny when you can say “it’s funny and lots of good gunplay”. The only uncomfortable part, well for me (as DCM told me) was the chickens, so if you see the chickens, you’ll understand.
There was a good supporting cast, Bill Paxton plays a slimeball, James Marsden looks good in his Navy Officer whites and Edward James Olmos is the scuzzy head of a Mexican drug cartel.
Did you know that you don’t rob a bank across the street from a diner that has the best donuts for three counties? Well, ya do now!
As I said it was funny, the relationship between the two main characters, the way they interact, the way they play off each other, the way they are towards each other before they find out about the other and how they act towards each other after they find out and how the start building a different kind of relationship once the secret is out and they have to work together towards a common goal. And end up more than partners…they’re family.
Peaches Prattlings 