Play Dirty

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Play Dirty

R

2025

2h 5m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

Drama

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An expert thief rolls out the biggest heist of his life in Play Dirty, an action-packed thriller from director Shane Black. Parker (Mark Wahlberg), along with Grofield (LaKeith Stanfield), Zen (Rosa Salazar) and a skilled crew, stumble onto a score that pits them against the New York mob in this gritty, clever caper.

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Critics Consensus

Play Dirty marks a welcome return for writer-director Shane Black to the realm of wisecracking crime thriller, but haphazard execution makes this vehicle less of a comeback and more just low-stakes mucking around.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

Dec 31

Mark Wahlberg is playing this guy like every guy he's ever played.

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John Nugent

Empire Magazine

Oct 3

3/5

Not quite vintage Black, and Mark Wahlberg is no Robert Downey Jr, but this is fast and funny enough to be worth a couple of your hours. Squint hard enough and it almost feels like you’re back in the ’90s.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

AV Club

Oct 2

C+

It’s overlong and friction-less, with chase and action scenes that quickly devolve into pile-ups of Rivian product-placements and gummy-looking VFX elements.

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Austin Burke

Austin Burke/Flick Fan Nation

Oct 24

5/10

Beyond a few fun performances, this movie falls flat. The script feels bloated, and Shane Black's touch fails to shine through.

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John Stark

Mac the Movie Guy

Oct 19

30/100

Play Dirty has a messy script that needs to be cleaned up, which is depressing considering it passed by Shane Black who should have known better.

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Aaron Neuwirth

We Live Entertainment

Oct 16

4/10

Wahlberg, who has come a long way only to now repeatedly star in streaming films I don’t care for, plays the worst interpretation of author Richard Stark’s Parker yet in this film.

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@Lightingblade28 1d

I loved this movie people arr way to critical about movies just sit back and enjoy these movies like u would in early 2000s. This movie gsve early 2000s vibes loved it. Love the action im a sucker when it comes to action movies. Anytime mark whalberg is in a movie i just can't wait to sit down and watch the film

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andrea c

@Charst 6d

Film d'azione con poco senso di esistere, in cui personaggi, trama e dialoghi sono tutti coerenti nell'essere poco originali. Tra le altre cose, le sequenze di azione sono a dir poco folli considerando la totale assenza di polizia nonostante un numero di morti che potrebbe essere riconducibile ad una guerra. Rapine e colpi di scena talmente prevedibili da non sortire l'effetto sperato e personaggi comprimari piuttosto futili, ad eccezione probabilmente di Lakeith Stanfield. Mezzo punto in più per la vendetta finale, unica parte non scontata e purtroppo poco sfruttata nella parte emozionale durante il film.

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Chris H.

@Chris526 Feb 7

Absolute garbage. How do they make movies so bad anymore. Horrible.

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Einjeru W

@einjeru Feb 4

I don't understand the hate, i enjoyed it very much! It was fun

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Daniel M

@MazzaQuePasa Jan 23

Pretty bad movie, I only lasted about 40min. Bad acting, boring story and Mark didn’t look like he wanted to even be in the movie lol It felt like a bad movie for streaming.

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Karen H

@karenh1966 Jan 20

Why the opening scene was running into a horse race in a car is beyond me. Was stupid but also awful. Same kindof movie as always

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Synopsis

An expert thief rolls out the biggest heist of his life in Play Dirty, an action-packed thriller from director Shane Black. Parker (Mark Wahlberg), along with Grofield (LaKeith Stanfield), Zen (Rosa Salazar) and a skilled crew, stumble onto a score that pits them against the New York mob in this gritty, clever caper.

Director: Shane Black
Producer: Jules Daly, James W. Skotchdopole, Marc Toberoff
Screenwriter: Shane Black, Charles Mondry, Anthony Bagarozzi
Distributor: Prime Video
Production Co: Amazon MGM Studios
Rating: R
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 1, 2025
Runtime: 2h 5m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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