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

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 6, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2017

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

Like the Eighties never went away.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2014

That a movie this fleet and lean succumbs to action-blockbuster bloat in the home stretch is both disappointing and predictable, although the director deserves credit for keeping the climactic shootouts slick and spatially coherent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2014

Mark Wahlberg reunites with Contraband director Baltasar Kormakur for an action movie that's even more cynical and sadistic than its predecessor.

| Jan 1, 2014

This class of sleek bickering comes along all too rarely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2013

Wahlberg gives Washington levity; Washington gives Wahlberg resolve.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2013

Not much firepower.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2013

A fairly indistinct Tex-Mex time-filler that soon gets lost amid memories of cooler, dustier, sweatier tear-ups.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2013

Wahlberg makes lines such as "You know what you are? A misanthorp" so insanely funny you laugh in the way you used to at Eddie Murphy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2013

2 Guns is at Zen-like peace with the fact that it doesn't matter one bit, and I chucked and gasped through every not-mattering minute.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2013

In this star vehicle for Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, the headlights are on full beam but the engine is struggling in second gear.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2013

Clich is not a bad thing if it's done right. Like a good jazz improvisation, "2 Guns" leads to the same place but not the way you may expect.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2013

The biggest guns this action flick brandishes are stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg who have very different acting styles that work surprisingly well together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 2, 2013

It's essentially a buddy-cop romp with the usual assortment pack of graphic gruesomeness.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 2, 2013

Washington and Wahlberg make a charismatic team and have swagger to spare, as soldiers-of-fortune who are hustling money and drugs on both sides of the Mexican border.

| Aug 2, 2013

Banter, banter, banter. It's such fun being a tough guy and killing people.

| Original Score: C | Aug 2, 2013

In a summer when so many of the hype-heavy movies turned out to be big-budget bores, it's refreshing when a movie like 2 Guns achieves its admittedly modest ambitions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2013

It is an uneasy mix, but the stars own the fizzy dialogue with such brio, electricity and pure charisma that they provide the real explosive power.

| Original Score: B | Aug 1, 2013