'2 Guns' review: NOLA-shot buddy-cop comedy succeeds largely on
Washington-Wahlberg pairing  Follow on Twitter on August 02,
2013 at 6:30 AM, updated August 02, 2013 at 12:38 PM  The shiny
but exceedingly lethal weapons referenced in the title of the
twisty New Orleans-shot action-comedy "2 Guns" are, for the
record, tucked neatly into the waistbands of Denzel Washington
and Mark Wahlberg. And it's a darn good thing, too.  Without
them, director Baltasar Kormakur's willfully tangled and at
times downright muddled modern-day Western probably wouldn't
have worked any better than a can of wet gunpowder. With them,
however -- and, more importantly, with the chemistry between
their wisecracking, shoot-first characters -- Kormakur's film
becomes a moderately enjoyable, bullet-pocked romp.  The premise
is pie-simple stuff, taking a page straight from Buddy-Cop
Comedy 101: Washington and Wahlberg play undercover cops -- one
a DEA agent, the other working for Naval Intelligence -- who
both have spent years infiltratin