Robert 'Bobby' Trench ( Denzel Washington ) and Micheal 'Stig' Stigman ( Mark Wahlberg) are two criminals about to make a bank robbery. Unbeknownst to either of them they are both working undercover, Bobby for the DEA and Stig for the US Navy Seal. They believe the bank they are about to rob is where a local Mexican drug lord Manny Papa Greco ( Edward James Almos) deposits his money. When they blast open the bank deposit boxes they find they are all stuffed with millions of dollars. Its evident this cannot be just one persons drug money. Whose money it is becomes all too apparent as they turn up looking for them. And the race to unpick what's happened whilst evading capture begins.
This is a classic American Cop Buddy movie, based loosely on a comic book series in a script by Blake Masters. Its very evident from the repartee and snappiness of the dialogue, that a lot of this has been improvised by the two leads. They spar off each other brilliantly, and the pairing is a very effective and amusing one. The script is tightly disciplined, and keeps you guessing as to what is really going on here, and still has a few twists up its sleeves even at the end. Baltazar Kormakur's direction is impressively fast and slick., the pace never slackening. All the leads are at the top of their form, what's not to like? I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this. It doesn't completely reinvent the genre, but gives it a very effective high polish.
CARROT REVIEW - 5/8
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