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Spenser Confidential

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To unravel a twisted murder conspiracy, a former police detective returns to Boston's criminal underworld.
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While the buddy cops at the center of Spenser Confidential are plenty affable, the comedy never arrives as this half-hearted vehicle goes purely through the motions.

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Wenlei Ma News.com.au Spenser Confidential is too anaemic to be anything other than a paint-by-numbers bore offering nothing new and trying to skate by on Wahlberg's charisma alone. Rated: 2/5 Apr 6, 2020 Full Review Brad Newsome Sydney Morning Herald You don't need to remember the '80s private-eye series Spenser for Hire to enjoy this witless, charmless Mark Wahlberg Netflix movie. All you need is a general lack of discernment. Mar 11, 2020 Full Review Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club An ending that teases the possibility of sequels, with Wahlberg's Spenser tackling more cases of police officers and emergency personnel who have been falsely accused of crimes, should elicit nothing but groans. Rated: C- Mar 11, 2020 Full Review Ethan Gordon InSession Film It’s disappointing to see Peter Berg slink away from what seemed like a solid career as an action-craftsman/director for hire. He can apply competence, he just doesn’t seem to want to. Rated: C+ Mar 21, 2024 Full Review Elizabeth Garcia But Why Tho? A Geek Community Spenser Confidential is a run of the mill action movie that can’t decide if it wants to be Training Day or Rush Hour. Rated: 3/10 Jan 21, 2023 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies It has a throwback vibe to it that makes it all pretty easy to digest. But it’s even easier to forget. Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 25, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kevin K I thought Spencer confidential was a great movie a must see a lot of action mark is a good actor they do have a lot of haters out there buts that’s ok mark keep making them good movies you have plenty of real mark w fans out there. It doesn’t look like your going to slow down anytime soon keeping it real Kevin Kelley Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/06/24 Full Review Audience Member Good cast, fairly well-acted, decent storyline. Main problem was that it was a very out in the open daylight murder mystery when it should have been more cloak and dagger-they should have made the female FBI agent a younger hot geeky computer nerd and have her join with them to unofficially hack into phones and emails to piece things together better. Then they could have brought her into a sequel. But the writers in Hollywood are so F**KING WEAK now. No creativity, just formula action movies with predictable endings, no great twists at the end. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/29/24 Full Review Guava I I would have given it 2 stars until the end when Spenser threw away his gun so he and the bad guy could settle it with a fist fight. Come on, Hollywood Writer Guy, you can do better than that. Hell, I can do better than that and I'm not a Professional Hollywood Writer Guy. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/27/24 Full Review Joe W Can't say I like Wahlberg. It seems like when the director calls "action" he just wrinkles his forehead. He calls that acting. The movie has kind of a transparent plot. Easy to predict. Some good fight scenes, but that does not make a good movie. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/28/24 Full Review A S Typical buddy action movie. I never even knew it was supposed to be based on the Robert Spenser books. I’m loved those books and this movie. It’s a typical good guy bad guy buddy movie and enjoyable. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/03/24 Full Review Andrew Y Only gets x2 stars instead of one because I still can’t believe Wahlberg is. In such a mess of a film. This is not very good in every way. I couldn’t actually work out what it was about, who were the bad guys and who was good. The actual premise of an honest cop giving up everything for some weak principles on a matter he didn’t understand was just too daft. It’s so poor as to be annoying in the end because it’s difficult to care about anyone including Wahlbergs character. Avoid……… Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis To unravel a twisted murder conspiracy, a former police detective returns to Boston's criminal underworld.
Director
Peter Berg
Producer
Toby Ascher, Peter Berg, Stephen Levinson, Neal H. Moritz, Mark Wahlberg
Screenwriter
Sean O'Keefe, Brian Helgeland
Production Co
Netflix
Rating
R (Violence|Sexual Content|Language Throughout)
Genre
Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 10, 2020
Runtime
1h 51m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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