Virag's Movie Reviews: 2 Guns (2013)

Baltasar Kormakur's Icelandic films were pretty interesting, with amazing cinematography and a markedly un-Hollywood aesthetic.  2 Guns is anything but interesting.  Denzel Washington always comes through, but every time Marky Mark is in a flick, he completely ruins it regardless of whatever decent stuff might be on view.  Plus it would be impossible to find any pairing with less chemistry in a buddy cop flick than Denzel and Marky Mark.  (There must be a reason Clooney dumped Marky Mark in favor of Matt Damon, and Kormakur should figure out what that reason is and follow suit.)  Paula Patton isn't much of an actress--and she's made some horrible, horrible life choices--but she sure looks nice.  Bill Paxton was annoying and unwatchable as the CIA guy; Robert John Burke would have been much better as the CIA guy--the fact that Kormakur didn't see that is somewhat troubling as well.  Adama, Remo Williams, and Cyclops were wasted in useless parts.  I get that Kormakur likes money, so he showed up and did the job that he was hired to do, but 2 Guns was a disaster with wretched casting, a simplistic, juvenile screenplay, and bored direction.  The action was cliched, the humor was non-existent, and much of the acting was amateurish.  Liking money is fine, just fine, but Kormakur should divorce Marky Mark and go the fuck back to Iceland.