2 Guns
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| Directed by | Baltasar Kormákur |
| Produced by | Marc Platt Norton Herrick Randall Emmett George Furla Ross Richie Andrew Cosby |
| Screenplay by | Blake Masters |
| Based on | 2 Guns by Steven Grant |
| Starring | Denzel Washington Mark Wahlberg Paula Patton Bill Paxton Fred Ward James Marsden Edward James Olmos |
| Music by | Clinton Shorter |
| Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
| Editing by | Michael Tronick |
| Studio | Emmett/Furla Films Marc Platt Productions Boom! Studios |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures (US) Entertainment One(Canada/UK) Foresight Unlimited(International)[1] TriStar Pictures (some foreign territories) |
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| Running time | 109 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $61 million[3] |
| Box office | $75,383,605[3]2 Guns (stylized as 2GUNS) is a 2013 American action comedy film directed by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.[4] Based on a graphic novel series of the same name published by Boom! Studios, the film was released on August 2, 2013.[5] |
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[hide]Plot
Criminals Robert Trench (Denzel Washington) and Michael Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) are arrested by U.S. Customs after a meeting with drug lord Papi Greco (Edward James Olmos) in Mexico. Unbeknownst to Stigman, Trench is an undercover DEA agent and reports to his superior, Jessup (Robert John Burke), that he failed to acquire cocaine from Greco that they could use as evidence to convict him. Against Jessup's orders, Trench decides to remain undercover and assist Stigman in robbing $3 million from Greco, so they can prosecute Greco for money laundering. Trench later meets with his lover, Deb Rees (Paula Patton), who is involved with another man as well, while Stigman, an undercover Naval Intelligence Officer, meets with his commanding officer, Harold Quince (James Marsden), who instructs Stigman to kill Trench so the Navy can use the stolen money to fund covert operations.
Trench and Stigman are surprised to find $43 million (rather than $3 million) in the vault. After the heist, Stigman follows orders to betray Trench and escape with the money. He suspects Trench is a cop and shoots to wound instead of kill. Learning of this, Quince attempts to have Stigman killed. Stigman escapes after learning the money will be transferred to a Navy base in Corpus Christi. Meanwhile, Earl (Bill Paxton) aggressively interrogates the bank manager about the money Trench and Stigman stole from him.
Trench visits Jessup to tell him what happened, but Earl and his men are there waiting for him. Earl frames Trench for Jessup's murder and lets him go, making a deal that if Trench returns the $43 million he will be cleared. Trench goes to Stigman's apartment to find out where he took the money, only to have Stigman contact him from a sniper's post across the street. After escaping a hit squad sent by Quince, Trench and Stigman kidnap Greco and interrogate him in the garage at Deb's house, where they find out Earl, Greco's associate, is a black ops operative, and they have stolen money from the CIA.
The garage is attacked by another hit squad, led by Quince, and the trio ends up being captured by Greco and taken to his farm in Mexico. After torturing them and receiving a visit from Earl, Greco gives the pair 24 hours to steal the money from the Navy and return it to him, or Deb will die.
At the base, Trench infiltrates Quince's office, only to discover Quince is Deb's boyfriend, and they had planned to steal the money for themselves. Meanwhile, Stigman asks Admiral Tuway (Fred Ward) for help. Tuway orders Quince's arrest, but disavows Stigman to prevent the scandal from tarnishing the Navy's reputation. Quince evades arrest, as does Stigman. Unable to find the money, Trench is too late to prevent Greco from killing Deb. He later realizes that the money is in a motel room that he and Deb frequented and goes to help Stigman, who had returned to Greco's farm alone.
There, Stigman is surrounded by Greco's men until both Quince and Earl intervene. Trench arrives in a car filled with money, and then blows up the car, scattering the money everywhere, which leads to a massive shootout. During a standoff among Quince, Earl, Trench, and Stigman, Earl reveals that the CIA has 19 other secret banks, and the loss of the $43 million is only a minor setback. Signaling Stigman with a phrase from an earlier conversation, Stigman shoots Earl, and Trench shoots Quince. Trench kills Greco and the duo escapes, but not before Trench shoots Stigman in the leg as payback for shooting him in the desert. While planning to continue to take down the CIA's secret banks and sabotage their black ops operations, Trench reveals to Stigman that he did not blow up all the money and had some stashed away.
Cast
- Denzel Washington as Robert "Bobby" Trench
- Mark Wahlberg as Michael "Stig" Stigman
- Paula Patton as Deb Rees
- Bill Paxton as Earl
- Fred Ward as Admiral Tuwey
- James Marsden as Harold "Harvey" Quince
- Edward James Olmos as Papi Greco
- Robert John Burke as Jessup
- Doris Morgado as Daisi
- Allie DeBerry as Margie
Production
The film is an adaption of the comic series of the same name by Steven Grant.[6] However, it has been noted by the Observer that it can also be seen as evocative of the 1973 thriller Charley Varrick.[7] The pictures have similar plots and in both cases the bank being robbed is in Tres Cruces, New Mexico.
Filming took place in New Orleans, Louisiana and areas throughout New Mexico.[8] 2 Guns marked the second collaboration for Wahlberg and Kormákur: they first worked together on the film Contraband. It also marks the second collaboration between Washington and Patton after having starred together in Déjà Vu.
Reception
Critical response
2 Guns received positive reviews from critics. Based on 144 reviews Rotten Tomatoes gives an aggregate rating of 64%; the site's consensus states "Formulaic and often jarringly violent, 2 Guns rests its old-school appeal on the interplay between its charismatic, well-matched stars."[9] Metacritic gives a rating of 56 based on 40 reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews.[10]
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