2 Guns

August is usually known as the month that Hollywood throws any junk films that can carry the Superhero/Action Packed/Summer season into the Oscar Hopeful/Grown Up Dramas season. Sometimes there is a big surprise when a truly good movie finds its release date in August. Then still sometimes what looks like a good movie with A-list actors actually deserves a B movie release date.

Robert Trench and Michael Stigman are undercover agents posing as thugs working to bring down Mexican drug lord Papi Greco. They plan to rob a bank Papi uses to hide a small, 3 million dollar part of his earnings, and use the money as evidence in a RICO case. Unfortunately Trench is working with DEA and Stigman is NCIS and neither knows about the other, each think of each other as another thug to be brought down in the case. When they rob the bank and discover it actually holds 43 million dollars and none of it is Papis AND that they are actually allies, both being duped by their respective agencies AND that the money is actually the CIAs... Yeah lets just say the story gets a little complex and the action a little ridiculous.

2 Guns is like its heroes: not what it appears to be. I thought going into it that it would be a buddy cop action drama with a little comedy and maybe a little romance. What it actually is a full blown comedy, enough action to keep you interested, and pretty much an antiromance. Denzel is perfectly cast as a sure-of-himself, "I-know-a-guy", cynic and Walhberg is just as perfectly cast as the arrogant, wise-cracking, eager boyman who is completely unconcerned with openly humiliating cartel lords. The chemistry between these two is absolutely perfect throughout the whole movie and this is the only thing that makes this movie worth watching. There is the most brilliant comedic sketch in years involving Walhberg and some doomed chickens that had the audience in tears. Unfortunately when the movie tries to be smart with its seemingly complex but actually completely predictable plot, the storyline falls flat. So is this the surprise movie of August? I don't think so. It may be a good B movie but it remains a B movie.