2 Guns
Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 2, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
21
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireNeil AlcockAug 27, 2013
This does a serviceable job homaging '80s actioners but not a whole lot more. Go for the explosions, zone out for the plot. Read full review
60
Total FilmNeil SmithAug 24, 2013
Washington and Wahlberg are an effective double act in an intermittently exciting thriller with more twists than it needs. We’d love to see them partnered again, though perhaps as characters. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 1, 2013
Wahlberg and Washington are so good together, quips flying as fast as lead, that much is forgiven. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerAug 2, 2013
It’s essentially a buddy-cop romp with the usual assortment pack of graphic gruesomeness. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergJul 31, 2013
As in "Contraband," Kormákur offers a hint of a political statement, in this case about the inherent potential for corruption whenever competing government agencies are operating in international territory. But it doesn’t quite make it. On almost every level, 2 Guns is content to be as flavorless and forgettable as its title. Read full review
50
NPRMark JenkinsAug 2, 2013
Hypermacho but tongue-in-cheek, the first 20 minutes of 2 Guns are enormous fun. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigAug 1, 2013
By its conclusion the story has worked so hard to be twisting and clever that it runs out of steam and becomes outlandish, marked by a surplus of violence — too often casual and gratuitous — for what essentially is a buddy cop movie. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrAug 1, 2013
The movie has style but increasingly little sense. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAug 1, 2013
Savvy filmgoers will know they are getting a stale product as soon as they see the wrapper: one of those vintage muscle cars that screams “stakeout.” Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezAug 1, 2013
The phrase “casting is everything” has never felt truer than it does with 2 Guns, an unremarkable, standard-issue shoot-em-up that rests entirely on the charisma of its two stars. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 1, 2013
Hell, I really meant to at least like 2 Guns. But I couldn't. The movie just didn't make the extra effort. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundJul 31, 2013
Viewer/character solidarity only holds up for so long, and the film falls hard into twisty, nonsense territory, skipping over its stronger themes in the process. Read full review
50
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekJul 30, 2013
This is a here today, gone tomorrow trifle, albeit one with lots of gunplay. In midsummer, that may be enough, but it's still a shame that 2 Guns shoots so many blanks. Read full review
42
The PlaylistGabe ToroJul 31, 2013
There’s nothing about 2 Guns that doesn’t feel prefab, like someone poured a packet of Insta-Movie into a glass of water. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 27, 2013
There is a fair amount of not sufficiently witty or lovable banter, and Paula Patton gets to play Katharine Ross to their Butch and Sundance. She really has nothing to do except pose fetchingly in her underwear. Not much firepower. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonAug 13, 2013
Complications escalate to a tiresome degree, leeching the fun from the movie, which is slung together with cold competence (and not much more) by jobbing Icelandic maverick Baltasar Kormákur. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 2, 2013
While Washington and Wahlberg help make sure the flawed 2 Guns isn't too bad, it's hard not to think that it could have been better. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAug 1, 2013
When does banter turn to blather? In the case of this action adventure, which was directed by Baltasar Kormákur, it's when you realize that keeping track of the barely fathomable plot isn't worth the bother. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAug 1, 2013
Though individual set pieces are well done, the film inevitably leaves an empty taste behind it once it's done. Read full review
40
TimeMary PolsAug 1, 2013
They’re cute together, these two big stars, but the film around them, a sort of Tarantino lite, is desperately empty. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichJul 30, 2013
2 Guns quickly degenerates into boilerplate Hollywood sound and fury, complete with a climactic Mexican standoff that revolves around a massive, burning pile of money. Irony, thou art lost. Read full review
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