2 Guns

2 Guns

Rating 5 out of 10


When you have a movie starring two heavy weight actors like Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg  I tend to set the bar a little higher than normal.  Not sure why I include Wahlberg on that list.  Even though he is a likable guy and has shown he has his acting chops he has been in far more stinkers than good movies.  2 Guns isn't a stinker but it's not real good either.

It's a movie far more complicated than it needs to be.  You can tell by watching the trailer and while you know it's a buddy-buddy movie you have no idea what it is about.  You still have that feeling ninety minutes into this two hour movie.

Without giving spoilers away all I can tell you is Washington is a DEA agent and Wahlberg is working for the Navy.  Somehow Wahlberg gets Washington to help him rob a bank down on the Mexico border that is said to have a couple million dollars of Mexican drug money not knowing that Washington is working for the DEA.  Wahlberg is told the Navy will use that money to fund future drug raids and help starving kids.  Not sure why anyone would buy that or think that makes sense.  When they do rob the bank it turns out to have much more cash than they expect.  Money that belongs to some very bad people.  Double crosses everywhere.

I have been rumored to pick movies apart (cough-cough).  I admit thing like someone jumping behind a cloth couch to dodge bullets (no way can those bullets make it thru that couch!) or someone busting into a Naval base by running their car thru a barricade one would expect a middle school crossing guard to have gets on my nerves.  While a mutant named Wolverine can sprout razor sharp knives from his hands to chop up bad guys or Bruce Lee can kick a guy so hard he flies 15 feet in the air doesn't bother me a bit.  Go figure.

This movie has much you have to look the other way on.  The good class of actors takes this from a terrible movie to a watchable movie.  Without the big budget and actors this movie goes straight to DVD.  Which is where you should find this movie in a Red Box when you watch it.