The buddy picture was a staple of the 1970s and 1980s, possibly dating back to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but it’s been largely missing from more recent Hollywood fare. As a result, you have to given Universal Studios credit for recognizing the somewhat fresh approach in the Boom! Studios graphic novel 2Guns. Steve Grant paired two men in a drug story that felt familiar but with every action, things were never what they appeared, freshening the entire concept. Add in the charismatic Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, stir, and you have a crime story worth taking a look.
Out now on Blu-ray from Universal Home Entertainment, the film starts off with a robbery and never really slows down. Washington is Robert Trench, Bobby T, and Wahlberg is Michael Stigman, Stig, paired up to rob Mexican criminal drug lord Papi Greco (Edward James Olmos) of $3 million in cash.
Out now on Blu-ray from Universal Home Entertainment, the film starts off with a robbery and never really slows down. Washington is Robert Trench, Bobby T, and Wahlberg is Michael Stigman, Stig, paired up to rob Mexican criminal drug lord Papi Greco (Edward James Olmos) of $3 million in cash.
- 11/12/2013
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
New 2 Guns movie delivered great action,drama,comedy & more. Universal Pictures released their new action/comedy flick, "2 Guns," into theaters this weekend. I just checked it out, and thought it was great, serving up great action combined with some hilarious comedy,and more. The movie stars: Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Bill Paxton, Edward James Olmos,and James Marsden. In the new flick, undercover criminals ,Robert Trench (Denzel Washington) and Michael Stigman (Mark Wahlberg), end up getting arrested by U.S. Customs after a meeting with with drug lord, Papi Greco. Unbeknownst to Stigman, Trench is an undercover DEA agent and reports to his superior, while Stigman, is an undercover NCIS that reports to his commanding officer, Harold Quince (James Marsden). Trench eventually decides to remain undercover and assist Stigman in robbing $3 million from Greco, so they can prosecute Greco for money laundering. However, Trench and Stigman get a...
- 8/4/2013
- by Andre
- OnTheFlix
When people defend a movie as "popcorn entertainment" it's a term typically reserved for movies with CGI run amok and the equivalent of running into a brick wall over and over again. In my opinion spectacle rarely, if ever, makes up for a lack of story and character development and, as 2 Guns proves, some good casting can also go a long way. For my money, 2 Guns is exactly what I think of when it comes to popcorn entertainment, a film that takes itself just serious enough to make sense and respects and develops its characters. Yet, it has enough of a sense of humor to laugh at itself and have fun at the same time, reserving pyrotechnics for plot points rather than spectacle alone. The fact Denzel Washington is one of the coolest and most charismatic actors on the planet certainly adds to that, just as does his interplay with Mark Wahlberg,...
- 8/2/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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