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  Review by BeHaind ★★ 14

  Netflix: „Hey Peter, wir brauchen nen Cop Krimi nach Schema F, aber mit Mark Wahlberg, der wie üblich alle anbrüllt und dann halt so lustige Sachen sagt. Sein übliches Ego-Theater, du weißt schon.“

  Peter Berg: „Öhm...“

  Netflix: „Ja ganz easy, nix Besonderes..der Plot kann so banal sein, dass sich selbst die Drehbuchautoren von „Law & Order“ richtig talentiert dagegen fühlen würden. Mit ner Verschwörung, die so idiotisch ist, dass sie gleichzeitig hohl und trotzdem wirr ist.“

  Peter: „Naja also..“

  Netflix: „Und mach da noch nen Sidekick rein, BuddyCop-Genre kommt immer gut. Wie bei „Bright“.

  Peter: „Bright war jetzt aber nicht soo...“

  Netflix: „...und der ist...ähm..MMA-Fighter. Haha, ja genau. Aber das ist nur ein Gimmick, weil davon sieht man nie etwas ist.…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★ 8

  A far cry from the previous four movies that Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg have made together (the two men Voltron-ing into a single creative entity that will henceforth be referred to as “WahlBerg”), the hilariously titled “Spenser Confidential” is a high-testosterone action thriller about a red-blooded, blue-collared, perpetually open-mouthed American patriot who decides to take matters into his own hands when some bad guys besmirch the good name of these United States. Just kidding — the only significant difference between this chaotic dreck and the likes of “Mile 22” is that “Spenser Confidential” is going straight to Netflix (and, one must assume, the only reason it’s going straight to Netflix is that Barstool Sports doesn’t have its own…

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  Review by matt lynch ★ 2

  Absolutely the laziest, cheapest-looking, most ineffectual backdoor TV pilot disguised as a franchise starter since JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT.

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  Review by Chris Cabin ★½ 8

  Watching Winston Duke play second fiddle to Wahlberg is like watching Hendrix play keyboards in Nickelback.

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  Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★½

  Rotten Tomatoes: 39%
  Metacritic Metascore: 48

  32/100

  2020 Ranked

  Hawk: "Hawk is the name of the guy with the shotgun. Spenser does your taxes."

  SYNOPSIS: When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate, Hawk, to take down criminals.

  I present to you episode 5 of Wahl-Berg's Greatest Hits! Minus the greatest hits part.

  What started off as a very potent one-two punch in Hollywood with hits like 'Lone Survivor', 'Deepwater Horizon' and even 'Patriots Day' has only continued to spiral downward following 'Mile 22' and now this.

  I have never even heard of the 80s T.V. series that apparently this film is based on, but it definitely didn't do it any justice judging…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 1

  Just the right kind of stupid I needed for a while ... then it got more stupid.

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  Review by Hershey ★

  Wow, thank you Netflix. I really needed you to put the word PRISON on screen in massive white block letters, after 30 establishing shots of the prison. I wouldn't have been able to figure that one out on my own.

  This was an incompetent mess from start to finish. And worst of all, it's boring.

  2020, Ranked

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★ 2

  unfamiliar with the source material and maybe it's not fair to judge on this alone but with none of the intensity or action of a jack reacher or the guilt or moral considerations of a matthew scudder this is just a really cheap and boring paperback detective conspiracy for dads whose concept of boston begins and ends at The Departed. some of the music cues alone should be jail for everyone involved. marky mark doesn't really bring anything to this role but watching him beat up post malone, wise-crack some dirty cops with duke and arkin and uncover a local conspiracy of machete-wielding drug dealers with marc maron on a boat? i've seen worse movies.

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  Review by elvisthealien ★★½ 1

  Post Malone is in this, that's all I'll remember it for

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  Review by Will ★½

  I'll gladly never watch this again.

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★½ 1

  “SAY HI TO YA MOTHA FOR ME!” The Movie

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  Review by Brian Tallerico ★★ 2

  Do you think it ever crossed Mark’s mind that he was making the kind of movie that the opening part of The Other Guys was satirizing?