When two charismatic bad boys are being chased across the border by phalanxes of cops, thugs and spies, social commentary is just so much excess baggage.Déjà Vu (film) Called in to recover evidence after a bomb sets off a cataclysmic explosion on a New Orleans ferry, ATF agent Doug Carlin is about to discover that what most people believe is only in their heads is actually something far more powerful-and will lead him on a mind-bending race to save hundreds of innocent people.
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2 Guns loses its charm amid multiple incidents of torture and brutality, including animal cruelty, and its attempt to riff on reports of CIA involvement in the drug trade just burdens a movie whose adolescent-daydream ideas about manliness aren't terribly helpful as an approach to real-world issues. The script is less propulsive, and not just because it's overstuffed with reversals and revelations. Kormakur's work is well supported by Michael Tronick's taut editing and Clinton Shorter's rousing if predictable ambient-blues score. The action is helmed efficiently, and with blessedly little CGI, by Baltasar Kormakur, who directed Wahlberg in Contraband but started by making arty little films in his native Iceland. One advantage of their being frantically and forever on the run is that the guys are constantly grabbing new cars, trucks or dune buggies they switch vehicles as often as the protagonists of a chick flick might change shoes. (During one dispute, they roll around in the dirt, punching as wildly as little boys.) The agents are constantly on the move, with regular jaunts across the Mexican border, all while being pursued by multiple varieties of thugs. Having betrayed each other, Bobby and Stig are then forced to work together, though they're still inclined to quarrel. (Maybe they're in the actor's rider, like Van Halen's no-brown-M&M's directive?) She's depicted nearly nude and with leering close-ups of her sexy bits in a hotel makeout-session scene so much like the one in Flight as to suggest that such moments are obligatory in any R-rated Denzel Washington movie. Stig reports to a by-the-rulebook officer (James Marsden) who may not apply the same rigor to his own behavior Bobby, to his colleague and sometime lover Deb (Paula Patton). Bobby works for the DEA, which is plausible, while Stig toils for, uh, Naval Intelligence.Įdward James Olmos plays the drug lord targeted in the intelligence operation that both of the film's lead characters turn out to be connected to. It turns out that, though neither knows the other's true identity, both Bobby and Stig are not crooks but undercover agents, and each is trying to use the other to snare a Mexican drug lord (Edward James Olmos). As the countdown-clock plot ticks toward its conclusion, every tock moves the movie further into overplotted tedium.
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In fact, nearly everything's a little off, including the bulk of Blake Masters' script (derived from a comics series written by Steven Grant). The heist, it would seem, has gone according to plan. Then they set the diner on fire, don masks, and knock over the bank for $43 million, all while taking care to save any cops from getting hurt and even kissing an available baby. Tough guys Bobby and Stig (Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg) bicker and flirt - with a pretty diner waitress, and with each other - while casing a small-town Texas bank.
Hypermacho but tongue-in-cheek, the first 20 minutes of 2 Guns are enormous fun. With: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Edward James Olmos, Paula Patton
Rated R for violence throughout, language and brief nudity
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