Review: 2 Guns
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| Official '2 Guns' Poster. |
Pairing up two of the most famous and talked
about guys in Hollywood made '2 Guns' in the end an amusing and pleasant action
movie.
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| "Mark Wahlberg". |
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| "Denzel Washington". |
The movie centers around two bank robbers
'Robert Trench'(Denzel Washington), knows also as 'Bobby', and 'Michael
Stigman'(Mark Wahlberg), also known as 'Stig'. These two bank robbers, who are
unknown to each other, are actually undercover government agents. 'Bobby' is a
DEA agent, who has to penetrate a Mexican drug cartel, which is headed by
kingpin 'Papi Greco'(Edward James Olmos). While 'Stig' is a former NCIS
operative charged with stealing from narcotic suppliers in order to give it to
the NCIS SEAL black ops to fund their missions abroad. When both of them
realize the other's betrayal and both of them get in their respective troubles,
they must work together in order to clear their names, while being hunted down
by a ruthless mercenary 'Earl'(Bill Paxton). We also have 'Deb Rees'(Paula
Paxton) 'Bobby''s love interest, 'Harold Quince'(James Marsden) 'Stig''s
commanding officer, 'Jessup'(Robert John Burke) 'Bobby''s superior, and
'Admiral Tuwey'(Fred Ward).
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| "Bill Paxton". |
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| "Paula Patton". |
This movie is based on the same name graphic
novel written by "Steven Grant", who has worked for and published for
both Marvel and DC comics. However, many have expressed that this movie has
also taken few story lines from 1973 movie 'Charley Varrick'. And the thriller
feel of the movie is showing. But to be honest, the only real draw for the
audiences to watch the movie was the lead pair. "Denzel Washington"
and "Mark Wahlberg" were at the center of all the marketing and
without them we probably wouldn’t be sitting here talking about the movie. But
to be fair, the supporting elements other than the lead cast are good enough to
make the movie an enjoyable one. The crime-thriller genre these few years has
been growing, and the producers of this movie were able to capitalize on it by
bringing all the main elements to make '2 Guns' one of the good movies of this
genre.
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| "James Marsden". |
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| "Denzel Washington" and "Mark Wahlberg". |
The choice of "Baltasar Kormákur" as a director was a clever choice. The reason was because
of his work with "Wahlberg" in 'Contraband', which is in the same
category of movie as this one. He was able to center the pair of actors, while
still able to juggle around them enough action set pieces and keeping the movie
flowing in a smooth matter. And at the same time he was able to derivate from
it, what many described it as an R-rated buddy cup movie. The story of the
movie was pretty straight forward, which was the best way a story in this kind
of movie could be made in order to avoid confusion and clutter. Yet "Blake
Masters"('Brotherhood' and 'Law and Order: L.A.') could have included more
than the dry twists and mediocre character development for the supporting
characters. "Clinton Shorter"('District 9' and 'Contraband') did an
acceptable job with the score, seeing that these kinds of movies don’t need
over-the-top score but a more of an intelligent one.
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| "Mark Wahlberg". |
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| "Bill Paxton" and "Denzel Washington". |
The overall pace of the movie was
disturbed. At the beginning it was slow, than took a very rapid tempo. And then
towards the middle and through the end is where for me the rhythm of the movie
took the pace it should have taken all along. The action pieces were pretty
impressive, and I was really pleased with the limited use of special effects
for tackling for example the explosions or fighting. The opening of the movie
was clever way by the director to lure the audience through the great chemistry
between the main characters. My favorite scenes of the movie were when 'Stig' was
helping 'Bobby' escape the Navy Seals who were entering 'Stig''s apartment, and
I loved the climax fight towards the end. And to be honest all scenes that
included both "Washington" and "Wahlberg" together were
exciting to watch.
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| "Denzel Washington" and "Mark Wahlberg". |
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| "Paula Patton" and "Denzel Washington". |
One of the positive matters that were dealt
by the writers was the placing of importance on pair's shared relationship and
partnership and less on the individual's background and personal problems,
which I personally liked very much. "Denzel Washington" is a renowned
actor in Hollywood, where he is able in every role is thrown into to thrive and
put his exceptional personal flame on it. "Mark Wahlberg" has been
shining in the last couple of years and will keep on shinning more. His
portrayal of this character was just phenomenal, where it was one of the rare
times where I enjoyed from beginning to end watching an actor playing
magnificently such a freed-up and excitingly sarcastic badass character. The
supporting actors provided solid performances such as "Paula Patton",
who provided a very effective chemistry with "Denzel", and "Bill
Paxton", who provided a very fascinating performance that, included a very
interesting take on Russian roulette.
In the end, the crime action thriller
movie '2 Guns' has all the right elements, which includes a great pair of
distinguished actors, to be a good enjoyable movie amongst the superheroes and
love stories storming the movie scene lately.
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| '2 Guns'. |
-Starring: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Bill Paxton, Fred Ward, James Marsden, Robert John Burke, and Edward James Olmos.
-Based on: '2 Guns' by "Steven Grant".
-Studio(s): Boom! Studios, Tristar Pictures, and Universal Pictures.
-Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur.
-Screenplay by: Blake Masters.
-Music by: Clinton Shorter.
-Running Time: 109 minutes.
-Budget: $ 61,000,000.
-Box Office: -Domestic(US): $ 75,612,460.**
-Foreign: $ 55,783,743.**
-Rating: -IMdb: 6.9/10.
-Rotten Tomatoes: 64%.
-Metacritic: 55%.
-PERSONAL RATING: 7.4/10.
**Still Showing in Theaters Across The World.
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