Oscar nominee and Hollywood icon Mark Wahlberg
continues to be a significant draw the place motion is anxious, with the actor’s 2013 effort, by which he joins forces with a fellow Hollywood icon, discovering sudden success on streaming. Whereas the buddy cop motion outing was met with a considerably divisive response upon preliminary launch, the mixed charisma of Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington
makes 2 Weapons
a must-see for followers of the style. Cleary, audiences really feel the identical.
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Denzel Washington as DEA Particular Agent Robert “Bobby Beans” Trench and Mark Wahlberg as U.S. Navy Particular Operations Petty Officer 1st Class Michael “Stig” Stigman, the remainder of the solid consists of Paula Patton, Invoice Paxton, James Marsden, Fred Ward, and Edward James Olmos. Primarily based on the comedian e book collection of the identical title, 2 Weapons is now climbing the charts on 
Prime Video
, and you’ll take a look at the official synopsis beneath.
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For the previous yr, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and U.S. Navy intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) have been working underneath cowl as members of a narcotics syndicate. The twist: Neither man is aware of that the opposite is an spy. When their try to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and get well tens of millions goes haywire, the boys are disavowed by their superiors. Trench and Stigman should go on the run lest they wind up in jail or in a grave.
How You Really feel About ’80s Motion Will Decide How You Really feel About ‘2 Weapons’
2 Weapons was met with combined critiques on the time, touchdown scores of 64% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes alongside 66% from audiences on the Popcornmeter. Trying again on the critiques, plainly you had been both enamored with the ‘80s motion throwback and banter between Wahlberg and Washington…otherwise you actually, actually weren’t.
Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com awarded 2 Weapons a stable 3/4, saying, “Cliché shouldn’t be a nasty factor if it is completed proper. Like an excellent jazz improvisation, “2 Weapons” results in the identical place however not the best way chances are you’ll anticipate.” In stark distinction, Ben Kenigsberg of AV Membership slammed the film, saying, “On virtually each degree, 2 Weapons is content material to be as flavorless and forgettable as its title.” However, maybe most complicated of all was the response from Anthony Quinn of The Impartial, who stated 2 Weapons is “Just like the Eighties by no means went away.” However then solely awarded the motion outing 2/5. So, how you’re feeling concerning the ‘80s is all however assured to have an effect on how you’re feeling about 2 Weapons.
Mark Wahlberg not too long ago took on villain duties for director Mel Gibson’s Flight Threat, which sadly noticed the actor as soon as once more crash and burn with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Wahlberg is because of tackle a job beforehand performed by each Mel Gibson and motion film icon Jason Statham – that of the enigmatic Parker – within the upcoming crime thriller Play Soiled; will return for the motion sequel The Household Plan 2 on Apple TV+; stars alongside Paul Walter Hauser, Molly Shannon, Eva De Dominici, Benjamin Bratt, Daniela Melchior, Eric André and Chelsey Crisp in director Peter Farrelly’s action-comedy Balls Up; and can lead the long-gestating reboot of the beloved 70s motion collection The Six Million Greenback Man.
Supply: RogerEbert, AV Membership, The Impartial
2 Weapons
- Launch Date
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August 2, 2013
- Runtime
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109minutes
