Movie reviews: 2 Guns

The 2 Guns (15A) of the title are Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and Stig Stigman (Mark Wahlberg), a pair of fast-talking criminals who join forces to rob a small town bank.

When their heist nets them tens of millions, Bobby and Stig suspect one another of running a con — the twist being that Bobby and Stig only belatedly discover that they are both working undercover for separate law enforcement agencies. Can the feuding duo put their differences aside for long enough to work out who’s trying to kill them?

It’s a neat set-up to a conventional buddy-buddy cop movie, but Baltasar Kormákur’s film is a lot smarter and darker than the movie trailer’s knockabout comedy might have you believe. Bobby and Stig’s foes include a Mexican drug cartel and a shadowy intelligence organisation, neither of whom are shrinking violets when it comes to inventive ways of inflicting pain on our heroes, while the twists and turns are here concerned with an especially cynical corruption.