'2 Guns' Red Band Trailer: Have They Properly Incentivized You?

One of the many projects that David O. Russell's attached himself to and then detached himself from over the past several years is 2 Guns, an adaptation of a graphic novel by Steven Grant. He originally had Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in mind for the lead roles, as two undercover federal agents who don't realize the other is a lawman.

The picture fell into Baltasar Kormákur's hands after Russell left, with Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington starring. While Kormákur's version doesn't look quite as hilarious as Russell's sounded, it's retained an appealing streak of buddy-comedy humor that sets it apart from the other grim, gritty thrillers at the multiplex.

The film opens later this week, and Universal is making one last push with a final red-band trailer. Watch it after the jump.

2 Guns wants to be both a serious actioner and a playful cop comedy, and so far it's been tough to tell whether it succeeds at balancing those two tones. At worst, it could feel like two completely different movies awkwardly stitched together. If, on the other hand, it succeeds, it could be a playful treat to wash down the darker thrills of July's The Wolverine and The Conjuring. 2 Guns opens this Friday, August 2.

Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg lead an all-star cast in 2 Guns, an explosive action film that tracks two operatives from competing bureaus who are forced on the run together. But there is a big problem with their unexpected partnership: Neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent.

For 12 months, DEA agent Robert "Bobby" Trench (Washington) and U.S. naval intelligence officer Michael "Stig" Stigman (Wahlberg) have been reluctantly attached at the hip. Working undercover as members of a narcotics syndicate, each man distrusts his partner as much as the criminals they have both been tasked to take down.

When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire, Bobby and Stig are suddenly disavowed by their respective superiors. Now that everyone wants them in jail or in the ground, the only person they can count on is the other. Unfortunately for their pursuers, when good guys spend years pretending to be bad, they pick up a few tricks along the way.