This Means War Page #4

Synopsis: Two CIA agents, Tuck and Frank who are also best friends, have been benched because someone's after them. Tuck is divorced with a son whom he's not close to and Frank is a ladies man. Tuck decides to try and find someone so he places his profile on a dating website. Lauren, a woman also looking for a guy sees Tuck's profile and goes with him. She later bumps into Frank and he hits on her and she goes out with him. She's intrigued by both of them. When they learn that they're dating the same girl, they agree to let her choose. But both can't help but use their skills to keep tabs on her and each other. And also sabotage each other's dates with her.
Director(s): McG
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
31
Rotten Tomatoes:
25%
PG-13
Year:
2012
103 min
$54,758,461
Website
2,915 Views


This is good, okay?

You gotta go out there and live a life...

...for women like me who can't...

...who have to have sex with the same guy

every Wednesday night at 9:00...

- ...while we're eating Cheetos.

- That's kind of awesome.

It is awesome.

For women everywhere.

That's the spirit. Do it.

And Bob's super horny, I gotta go.

Okay. Bye.

Okay. For women everywhere.

I love it, I love it, I love it.

Me love you long time.

Tuck.

Where's your partner?

- Oh, he went out on a date.

- Of course he did.

The guy's an assassin, slays everything

he sets his sights on, right?

We got a positive lock

on that license plate.

- Do you want us to put it up?

- Yes.

No. Actually, no, don't.

- Yeah, go on. If you would, thanks, yeah.

- Okay.

No. No, we can't.

Yeah. You gotta do it now. Go on.

- I'm here now.

- Okay.

Wow.

- I wasn't sure if you were gonna show.

- I told you I could handle it.

We'll see. Come on.

- Oh, I don't wanna lose my spot.

- Don't worry about it.

After you.

Go ahead.

Let them through.

- Good to see you, buddy.

- How you doing?

You'll gonna love this place, I swear.

Hey, Ciera. How are you?

I think you're enjoying yourself. You just

have to loosen up. Get off the simmer.

Nathaniel.

What's up, baby? How you been?

Look at you. Oh!

You are shining like a bright light.

You guys are here? Come on.

All right, I gotta go say hi to the DJ.

He knows me.

Come on. Come on in.

Come on. Come on.

What's up?

After you, my lady.

'85 Veuve, Sammy.

Hey. Where are you going?

- Where are you going? We just got here.

- You know what?

- I'm not the girl for you.

- Oh, come on, just...

Come inside, we'll have a good time.

It's really okay. I've done this.

I was a gymnast in high school,

my best event was the keg stand.

- You're a gymnast?

- Unbelievable.

It's valid. You said you were a gymnast,

I asked a question.

That's exactly why I'm walking away.

Because you're uptight

and don't know how to have good time?

You have the emotional intelligence

of a 15-year-old boy.

You think I'd be interested in going out

with you or going back up in the club?

- I don't think so.

- Thank you, princess.

- Can we call it a night?

- Can we please call it a night?

- Good night.

- Sayonara.

- Have fun.

- Ciao. Go back to the retirement village.

Of course I do.

Oh, my God. This is not happening.

Come back here. Wait, wait, wait.

- Just kiss me.

- What? Absolutely not.

- I'm serious.

- Why would I? No.

- Just kiss me right now.

- I'm not gonna kiss you. You're bipolar.

- Stop.

- Oh.

Lauren. Uh....

Lauren, hey.

- There you are.

- Oh. Oh, Steve.

Oh, my God, that is so funny

running into you again. That's so funny.

Um.... This is my boyfriend, FDR.

Huh.

He, uh... He's the surgeon

that we were talking about.

- Huh.

- Yeah.

Neurosurgeon. I'm the department head

at the children's hospital.

Wow, that's amazing.

- He is. He's really amazing.

- Stop it.

- Amazing?

- I don't know what makes me happier.

Smile on a child's face

or waking up next to you every morning.

- I love you.

- I love you. I love you too. That's so funny.

Jinx. Ha-ha-ha.

- We're really happy.

- Yeah, we are.

- Yeah.

- Who wouldn't be happy...

...with a girl like this?

She's got everything.

- She got the beauty, style, grace.

- He's so sweet to me.

- Did you know she was a gymnast?

- No, I didn't know.

- Didn't think so.

- Yeah.

He likes it.

- Frisky, I love it.

- Yeah.

- Can you do that thing on the high bar?

- Yeah. I think we should get going.

- Stan, it was such a pleasure. We gotta go.

- I mean, it's Steve, but that's cool.

- Great meeting you.

- Steve, yeah.

Really nice meeting you.

- Really nice meeting you.

- It was a pleasure.

Oh, look at that.

A little kiss on the hand there.

- That's sweet.

- You are so lucky.

- I know.

- Yeah.

- Bye.

- Bye now, guys.

Yeah.

- See you. Have fun, Simon.

It's Steve.

- Okay. Thank you so much.

What did you say?

This ear's a little deaf.

I said, thank you. Thank you.

You don't have to be annoying about it.

Do you wanna go grab a bite?

I know a pizza place around the corner.

You owe me an explanation

for whatever that was.

- Okay. You're right, I do.

- Yeah?

- Sure.

- Let's go.

- Okay.

- Okay.

So I packed up my entire life

and I followed him out here.

And then six months later, I found him

in bed with a Pilates instructor.

He's just not the guy I thought he was.

- I made a mistake.

- I don't believe in mistakes.

Well, that's a very convenient philosophy

for someone like yourself.

It's the mistakes

that make us who we are.

They led you here, right?

Would you rather be back in Atlanta

right now?

No, not really.

They led to your job,

you like your job.

- I love my job.

- So there you go.

Just saying.

- You're very smart.

- Mm-hm.

- Pretty smart for a club rat.

- Ha. Ouch.

- Good morning.

- Good morning, sir.

Nice-looking woman from last night.

- You reconned my date.

- What? No. No.

Yeah, you did.

Okay. I'm sorry, I did.

I reconned your date.

- We had a deal.

- I know.

- Sorry, I started thinking...

- You started thinking?

I had to find out...

I didn't know.

If there was some action,

what were you gonna do?

- Call in Special Ops?

- No.

- Sniper squad? Take me out?

- No, no. I mean...

Our Munich office got a hit back on one

of Heinrich's men from Hong Kong.

Name is Ivan Sokolov.

Here's a surveillance file

from the DFS in Mexico.

We expect he's trying to get Heinrich

into the country through L.A. Harbor.

Chatter suggests Ivan lives here in L.A.

Now, flush him out.

She's definitely lost her sparkle.

All right, look, you flag Interpol,

I'll call some of our contacts.

I really like this girl.

I really like her too.

No, I really, really like her.

- So do l.

- You do?

Yeah, I do.

- So you're not backing off?

- Nope.

Okay.

Then you ought to know that when

we went out on our date, Lauren and l...

...we, um....

What?

What? What did you do?

We shared a kiss.

- Wow.

- Mm-hm.

Incredibly magical kiss with tongue.

Oh, dear. Wonderful.

You are an animal.

Look, pal, we kissed too.

It was pretty special.

I don't think it will be the last.

- Well, we'll see about that, won't we?

- We shall see about that.

Yes, we will. We will see about that.

Don't do that. Don't say what I just said.

We will see about that.

About that, we will see.

We will see about that.

About that, we will see.

Right. This is a live operation,

it's a full wrap and tap, boys.

I want parabolics, infrareds, sat cams,

everything we got on the job.

I want you to acquire intel

on one Lauren Scott.

- What are her secret likes....

- Dislikes.

I want to

know what makes her laugh, cry.

Best friends, family members.

Everything is important.

The last three guys she slept with.

Who she was sleeping with last week.

You want us to take them out?

You want us to take them out?

Yea...

No.

- No.

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