Spenser: Confidential (Netflix)

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• Genre: Comedy

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With a career more and more limited to the action genre, which is the one he manages best given his more than evident technical and natural limitations, Mark Wahlberg is not short of work because he is already working as a producer to manage it. This co-production with Netflix is ​​a clear example, because it is conceived simply and plainly as a vehicle for the brilliance of the Bostonian actor, to demonstrate his attitudes both as a tough guy and as a comedian . And the truth and unexpected is that it comes out better standing in the second facet than in the first. The merit, or the demerit depending on how you look at it, is from the director Peter Berg, an actor turned director with a rather mediocre filmography who also doesn't lack work for the same reason as Wahlberg, with whom he has shared production tasks in various projects.

entertaining and inconsequential, it sits just halfway between a luxury TV movie and a B-series movie

Berg rolls, and above all he rides (that of telling the same thing twice without it coming to mind is a firecracker), in a rather pedestrian way of the action scenes, in such a way that they end up being excessively spicical and past revolutions. Meanwhile, the moments dedicated to humor, which are many, benefit from dialogues full of intention and, especially, the presence in the cast of a great actor like Alan Arkin , who, without great effort, takes all his colleagues in front. To summarize: entertaining and inconsequential, Spenser: Confidential is situated just halfway between a luxury TV movie and a B-movie.

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