“More Than 2 Laughs”

“Hotshots” looks at a movie!

2 Guns stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as 2 guys who appear to be partners, but both of them have a deep undercover secret from the other one.

2 Guns

In fact, for the first half of the movie even the audience doesn’t know if they are cops, crooks, or both.

Washington plays Bobby Trench, sometimes known as Bobby Beans, and Wahlberg plays Michael Stigman, sometimes known as just “Stig.”

When the movie opens they rob a bank in Tres Cruces, Texas, even though Bobby has told Stig the advice of “Never rob a bank across from a diner that has the best doughnuts in three counties.”

And Bobby tells Stig that advice while they are sitting in the diner across from the bank before they rob it.

But then something happens that they didn’t expect, and we get a flashback to one week earlier in Mexico when a drug deal they were involved in didn’t turn out the way they expected, either.

The drug deal gone bad is their motivation for the bank robbery, but whereas they were expecting to steal $3 million of the drug lord’s money, they discover $43 million in the bank, and they don’t know whose money it is. Of course, they don’t really care.

Well, that much money can make you do crazy things, and Bobby and Stig do, which are also unexpected.

Also, the people whose money they stole want the money back, and they will do anything to get it back.

Anything.

And then we get double crosses, murders, shoot-outs, car chases, kidnapings, more murders, and more double crosses.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch in Mexico, Bobby and Stig even get caught in a cattle stampede, and they are given a deadline of 24 hours to turn over the money.

Only problem is, they don’t know exactly where the money is.

However, Stig tells Bobby, “I got a plan,” but when it appears that the plan didn’t work, Stig says that it was a brilliant plan if nobody expected it.

This excellent movie even has a Mexican standoff in it.

2 Guns ends with 2 good laughs, and a sequel might even already be in the works, which would be called 2 GUNS 2 or maybe 3 Guns if Bobby and Stig can find another partner that they don’t trust, either.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”