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  • n  a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner
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  • '2 Guns' review: Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg are a new breed of buddy cops
    Based on dark comic-book ace Steven Grant's series, "2 Guns" comes with graphic-novel pedigree. It's R-rated. So it lives up to its title with noisy shootouts — there's even a Mexican standoff — mixed with other events that go "boom!" And there are threats of torture and moments of outright deadly dispatch that distinguish it from much of the cartoonish mayhem of "Red 2," with which it shares ...
    Aug. 7, 2013 - The Register Citizen
  • Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg a new breed of buddy cops
    Based on dark comic-book ace Steven Grant's series, "2 Guns" comes with graphic-novel pedigree. It's R-rated. So it lives up to its title with noisy shootouts — there's even a Mexican standoff — mixed with other events that go "boom!" And there are threats of torture and moments of outright deadly dispatch that distinguish it from much of the cartoonish mayhem of "Red 2," with which it shares ...
    Aug. 7, 2013 - The Oakland Press

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