2 Guns

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2 Guns

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Released Aug 2, 2013

1h 49m

Action

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Mystery & Thriller

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For the past year, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and U.S. Navy intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) have been working under cover as members of a narcotics syndicate. The twist: Neither man knows that the other is an undercover agent. When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire, the men are disavowed by their superiors. Trench and Stigman must go on the run lest they wind up in jail or in a grave.

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Critics Consensus

Formulaic and often jarringly violent, 2 Guns rests its old-school appeal on the interplay between its charismatic, well-matched stars.

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

... it's not that bad. But it ain't good either.

Rated: D+

Sep 6, 2017

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

metro.co.uk

Movie rule 12: Mistrust anything bearing a '2' in its title - particularly when it's not a sequel. But 2 Guns proves a totally unexpected exception.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 5, 2017

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Wesley Morris

Grantland

Washington and Wahlberg have a good time robbing banks and blowing up buildings and barreling through military security checkpoints and double-crossing people and shooting each other because none of it really means anything.

Jan 3, 2014

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Don’t be fooled by the title: there are hundreds of guns and bazillions of spent rounds in this fast-moving action flick.

Feb 21, 2023

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

2 Guns is conventional, and the sense of humor is somewhat caustic, but ultimately the mild chuckles and fast-paced exploits of Beans and Stig provide a lazy diversion the viewer will instantly forget once the credits start to roll.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 30, 2022

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Kip Mooney

College Movie Review

Despite not owning an ounce of originality, 2 Guns more than makes up for it through the chemistry of Washington and Wahlberg.

Rated: B

Sep 17, 2021

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Oaklee D

An buddy action film that has some good laughs and one liners throughout.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/04/25

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Audience Member

Super fun to watch. Great acting, cool story, the performances were awesome, great action scenes. It was way better than I thought it would be and I thought it would be pretty good.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/25

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Ted B

3.0 stars; Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg pull off a pretty good action movie. They, of course, rely on the old 'bad chemistry between them' formula to add the proper level of humor. What was unique about this plot was that both were undercover agents working for agencies that were trying to rip off a forty-three-million-dollar heist.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/25/24

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Jelisije J

A good buddy cop movie that left me a few good surprises that kept engage throughout this film run time.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/16/24

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Koi P

Loved that I didn't have it figured out in the first 10 minutes. The story unravels on its own terms.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/22/24

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Mikey M

Better writing and editing could have made it a classic. As it is, I loved the chemistry of these characters, Denzel and Wahlberg are great together. And the late great Bill Paxton was great, too. There are some beautiful classic cars, too.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/21/24

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Baltasar Kormákur

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Mark Wahlberg

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Synopsis

For the past year, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and U.S. Navy intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) have been working under cover as members of a narcotics syndicate. The twist: Neither man knows that the other is an undercover agent. When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire, the men are disavowed by their superiors. Trench and Stigman must go on the run lest they wind up in jail or in a grave.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Producer: Marc Platt, Randall Emmett, Norton Herrick, Adam Siegel, George Furla, Ross Richie, Andrew Cosby
Screenwriter: Blake Masters
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Marc Platt Productions
Rating: R (Language|Brief Nudity|Violence Throughout)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 2, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 1, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $75.6M
Runtime: 1h 49m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS

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