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“2 Guns” Has More Than 2 Laughs
Aug 10th
“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.
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.”
“The Heat” Good Enough to Reheat
Jul 6th
“Good Enough to Reheat”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
The Heat is another comedy about buddy cops, but the difference in this case is that the two buddy cops are both women.
In fact, I have read that this is the only film this summer in which the two stars are women, and yet it is definitely not a chick flick.
Sandra Bullock stars as Sarah Ashburn, an FBI agent who is slim, prim, and grim, so much so, in fact, that none of her fellow agents like to work with her.
Melissa McCarthy stars as Shannon Mullins, a Boston police detective who is rude, crude, and lewd, and whose unorthodox methods make her very successful.
After Shannon captures one criminal, she tells him, “It’s not about luck, Pal. It’s not about luck.”
Now, Sarah’s boss is going to be moving up and out, and Sarah wants to be promoted and to take over his job. So, she is transferred temporarily to Boston to find and capture a drug lord, and if she is successful, her boss tells her that they will talk about the promotion.
Well, Sarah is forced to partner with Shannon on the case, even though neither of them wants to, but again Sarah’s boss tell her that she has to show that she can work with Shannon before they will talk about her promotion.
Shannon tells Sarah that Shannon is intuitive and says what she feels, especially when they go undercover into a nightclub and they change Sarah’s appearance to make her more attractive in order to get close to a criminal that they are after.
Shannon also isn’t afraid to use Russian Roulette in order to get a suspect to talk during an interrogation.
Naturally, there will be times for Sarah and Shannon to go out socializing together, and naturally they will all be funny.
Shannon also has occasion to take Sarah home to meet Shannon’s family, which is interesting because the family doesn’t like Shannon for what she did to her brother, but ultimately funny in the discussion between “narc” and “na’c.”
You can imagine that Sarah and Shannon are successful in catching the drug lord, and you can also imagine that a sequel to this very funny film might already be in the works.
The Heat is good enough to see again, especially if the second time is Part II.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
The Heat – Movie Trailer
Jun 30th
Uptight FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) couldn’t be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies. From Paul Feig, director of “Bridesmaids.”
