![]() ![]() ![]() The film opens with that laziest crutch of the modern filmmaker, the unmotivated in medias res scene that introduces us to super-cool Bobby (Washington) and enthusiastically moronic Stig (Wahlberg), a pair of criminals making ready to rob a bank Texas, but not before they torch a diner where they can find "the best doughnuts in three counties", which Bobby considers to be an ill omen and magnet for the cops. But instead of throwing out one contrivance after another to keep the two bickering lawmen joined at the hip as they fight their way to justice, 2 Guns does very nearly the opposite, coming up with every opportunity it can to separate the leads, with leaves us with plenty of time to focus on the plot and the action and all the things that buddy cop pictures tend to gloss over, and let us not mince words: the actual movie part of 2 Guns is pretty goddamn bad. 2 Guns gets as far as putting Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg into the well-worn roles of the crusty, short-tempered pro, and the fast-talking, lovable goofball, respectively, and lo! their banter is spritely! and their chemistry cheerful if not timeless. Historically, there's only one thing this kind of movie needs to do in order to succeed at the basic level of flashy, superficial entertainment: find two actors who have good chemistry and banter well with each other, and set them loose on tolerably clever dialogue as they shoot guns at the bad guys and only barely manage to avoid shooting each other along the way. But damn it all if the genre's latest entry, 2 Guns, didn't go out and found a way. The acerbic buddy cop action movie being one of the most formulaic of all stock genres, it would seem like there'd be no real chance of a movie seriously fucking it up.
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