By Antwanete Ford
It’s been a long summer with action film after action film leaving viewers thirsty for real entertainment. Well, Denzel Washington and Mark Walberg are two of the highest paid actors in Hollywood for a reason; they are liquid entertainment! And 2 Guns is like sipping a Long Island Tea on a hot summer day the more you sip the better you feel.
Washington and Walberg are both undercover operatives from competing bureaus working to infiltrate the Mexican drug cartel. The movie opens with an older more mature but still sexy DEA agent Bobby Trench (Washington) and younger flirty, and yes sexy, U.S. naval intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Walberg) at a diner with the best donuts in town and then with a wink and grease fire the movie blasts off. Trench and Stigman find themselves on the run with $42.125 million.
The star-studded cast includes the ever so beautiful Paula Patton, Bill Paxton, James Marsden, Fred Ward and Edward James Olmos obviously was given creative license to go over the top. You have to love a Mexican drug king pin with a chubby kid named Pappi and a bad guy with a thick Texas drawl and a knack for making you laugh and cringe at the same time. By the way ,Bill Paxton is superb in this movie.
I haven’t seen a buddy cop movie this fun since Beverly Hills Cop. I was expecting a typical action movie with car chases and explosions, but what I got was witty writing, several great one liners, and several unexpected weird but cool scenes. I can honestly say Blake Masters has to be on the top five lists of creative screen writers. He transformed Steven Grants graphic novel On the Boom into a great movie script. I don’t know how crazy a person has to be to write a scene where the bad guys bury live chickens in the ground with their heads sticking out for target practice but it’s crazy good. And Baltasar Kormakur, who also directed Walberg’s sleeper hit Contraband, has another hit under his belt. Let’s just hopes he keeps surprising us.
2 Guns opens Friday. Run, don’t walk to go see it.
