Spenser Confidential (2020)

Stars	User	Rating
4	Obdurate	60 _22nd
The positives and negatives balance each other out and you're left with a movie that's the very definition of okay. The negatives being sometimes the tonal shifts from comedy to thriller/drama don't work, and some of the musical choices are poor. The positives being Wahlberg excels in these types of roles and while the story and action is predictable, it's ultimately okay enough to get some enjoyment from this.
3	djross	45 _34th
Breezy tale that benefits from an unusually aggressive girlfriend, a black offsider whose dialogue refreshingly never sounds like it is from "the street", and above all from the presence of Arkin. Some of the comedy is quite funny, but the plot seems to be generated by an algorithm and it isn't always possible to tell when the film is being deliberately ironic (e.g., when a character employs the time-honoured cliché, "I think it's time you told me what's really going on"). My third Wahl/Berg.
3	myfavchords	76 _54th
This is an enjoyable movie. The script is predictable but it works. The actors seem to be having a good time here. Overall I would recommend this movie.
2	Vandelay1	39 _34th
not so good
2	Corbad	60 _32nd
Comes across a bit clumsy in tone and execution. It's never very snappy or particularly thrilling, but it's enough of each to entertain for its two hours. Plus Winston Duke is cute and fashionable, so that's nice.
1	Luna6ix	78 _66th
As a Spenser adaptation this is a horrifically disfigured bastardization, but as a crime movie with bits of wisecracking here and there, I was pretty happy with it. Movie adaptations of hard boiled detectives are like unicorns these days, so I tend to love the bad and the good alike. Would love to see about twenty more of these, though.
1	moraesfelipe	40 _14th
I love chill but obsessed vigilante always trying to solve injustices in Boston -- with lots of cute Bostonian rudeness -- but it mostly fails big time at starting a franchise with such generic assets: buddy material never takes off, action-to-music montages seem dated and the plot is way convoluted and not suited for a project that should have had way more action set-pieces than that final one at the soon-to-be-Casino. Disappointing and less stupidly intense, action-drive we expect from Berg.
1	Hadleyreis	51 _28th
I think casting Post Malone sums this film up: poor show, guys
1	Ocelot	25 _17th
the most fascinating aspect of this movie is what compelled all of these actors, presumably with rich, full, sustained lives, to come together to make it. Iliza Shlesinger is very hot in it and the old beagle is very cute. spend more time with your family, Mark.
1	Karakand	35 _45th
This is the best movie to have LOBSTAH as text onscreen. Dare you to prove me wrong.
1	kgbelliveau	80 _52nd
Wahlberg is likable as is the rest of the cast in what is a very erratic action narrative that relies on the one punch after another twist approach.It very seldom works and it does until the grand finale here.A cast of likable outsiders just has to be given the escape potential from a near impossible situation to have everyone come out clean and happier than before. I am not sure why every well paced, well acted action set piece feels the need to end like this. It's kinda shameful at this point.
1	eCitizen	40 _32nd
The plot was not at all believable. Dialogs were lame. Markey Mark was not convincing. It was awesome to see Eliza Shlesinger as the hot mess. Lame gun battle. Predictable and tedious at times. There were lots of sometimes good action. Very good production quality and soundtrack. Overall, it's watchable if you can overlook all the nonsense, huge plot holes and play acting.
1	redflag	80 _17th
More Wahlberg entertaining garbage.

Average Percentile 26.28% from 314 Ratings