Allow
me to quickly introduce myself: My name is Kara, and I live over at
www.karaschatter.com
. I have no experience in the movie industry, other than watching and
appreciating them. I thought I would offer up my movie reviewing
skills, or lack thereof, to The Basement to give readers a female
perspective on movies, new, old, good, and bad.
I’m
not sure what there isn’t
to
like about this movie; there’s great acting by a couple of
Hollywood’s finest, gun-slingin’ action, drugs, money - How can
it get any better? 2 Guns was a great movie for what it is. It
doesn’t confuse you, there’s no twisty plot twists, just good ol’
fashion fun.
Denzel
Washington plays an undercover DEA agent and Mark Wahlberg plays an
undercover Navy SEAL. Neither of them have any idea but somehow join
forces to rob a Mexican drug lord’s cash-stash at a bank. Shit hits
the fan and well, they stick together to figure what the F is going
on.
Before
the movie came out there was some talk that Wahlberg couldn’t stand
up to Washington’s swagger, that he looked silly compared to him.
But who can? Denzel is the king of swagger, and I think that Wahlberg
approached his role as a kind of cocky good ol’ boy accordingly. I
saw glimpses of his character in Four Brothers as well as Shooter in
his 2 Guns character, and personally, I thought it worked well for
him.
I
also must mention that James Marsden playing one of the several bad
guys was refreshing. I was so used to seeing his luscious locks as
happy, cheerful, good guys that I didn’t even recognize him at
first, but he managed to pull it off.
2 Guns opens this past Friday in theatres and I definitely recommend it to anyone who just wants to sit down and watch an action movie for what it is - no frills, shoot en' up fun. I give it a Good!
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