Review - 2 Guns
2 Guns (2013), R, 109 minutes - You wouldn't know it from the trailers, but 2 Guns is based on the limited comic book series of the same name from 2007 by Steven Grant and Mateus Santolouco. It is not a comic series that I am familiar with, but after having seen the movie that resulted, I am curious to see how it compares to the source material. The trailer would have you believe that 2 Guns is a buddy cop flick, and while it does have some buddy-cop-flick moments, that really isn't what this film is at its core. 2 Guns is really a crime film revolving around a drug lord, corrupt high ranking government officials, and two government agents who have been assigned to the case, DEA agent Bobby Treanch (Denzel Washington), and naval intelligence officer Michael Stigman (Mark Wahlberg). Both are undercover, neither having any idea who the other actually is. As one might expect, neither is very happy when they have that epiphany. Eventually they realize that...