You might call this an 'anti-buddy' movie, since the two protagonists, Bobby 'Beans' Trench (Denzel Washington) and Michael 'Stig' Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) are eventually revealed to be using each other to bust a major drug cartel, while coming from opposite ends of their respective organizations. Bobby is really a DEA agent, while Stig is with Naval Intelligence. Even so, all is not as it appears, since both of their employers are dirty, with a third party extremely interested in the bank robbery they undertake in the town of Tres Cruces. It's the CIA whose stash of forty-three million dollars is stolen by the unorthodox duo, wise-cracking and dodging bullets along the way throughout the story. Their often-ad-libbed banter is what makes most of the picture's nearly two hour run time enjoyable, along with the unconventional methods they employ to get out of their predicaments. As it turns out, they're the only good guys in the story, since everyone around them plots to get their hands on the forty-three mil.
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