2 Guns

Actors:  Denzell Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Edward James Olmos, Bill Paxton, James Marsden
Rating:  8 out of 10, Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington; on the surface that sounds like a mismatch but Wahlberg is evolving into a very good actor and more than held his own with Denzel.  They play two undercover agents trying to survive after being double-crossed by everybody from a Mexican drug cartel to girlfriends, the US military and the CIA.   This was a very good, very funny movie as the two actors chewed up the scenery although it does feature some historically bad headgear - just really bad hats.  It’s a great example of a fairly mundane plot that’s elevated by the actors involved and included some very well staged action scenes.  In what has become his go to movie role – Marsden’s girl is cheating on him again and Ms Patton shows a completely new side (s) (worth the price of admission right there). Not a deep effort by any means but a lot of fun, especially the give and take between the two leads.
MVP:  Wahlberg as Stig, the hyperactive but dead shot foil