Spenser
Confidential 6/10
This
wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. Spenser Confidential is on Netflix and
based on the old series that I didn't watch which was based on a book
I didn't know existed. This is pretty much The Big Hit 22 years
later. I'm not sure if reviewers are shitting on it because of the
star or actually didn't watch it which is a for real ass thing that
some people who call themselves critics do. I ain't a critic. I am a
professional bitcher. This movie ain't bad. The trailer was bad. The
posters are bad. The movie isn't. Well, the music is but that's just
a Netflix thing. Their series have good music but the movies stank
when it comes to song choices. I did find it funny that this movie
takes place in Boston and everyone sounds like it except Wahlberg and
all I know about him is he is from there.
So
Spenser is in jail after beating the shit out of his captain, Boylan.
He shows up at his house, yanks him out after seeing he beat the shit
out of his own wife (not even why he went there), and whomps him. He
plead guilty to all his sentences and ends up there for five years.
Just before he is to be released he is jumped b some guys hired to
kill him and he gets stabbed. He is released and is picked up by his
friend Henry right before is ex named Cissy shows up. Apparently she
is crazy. She acts like Christina Applegate's character from The Big
Hit. Spenser doesn't want to be a cop anymore. He just wants to learn
to drive a truck, live in Arizona, and chill with his dog, Pearl.
Later that night Boylan is talking to his daughter when his car is
rammed and he is beaten to death. The next day another cop is found
dead and blamed for killing Boylan.
Spenser
sees the report on the news and knows the cops are gonna come talk to
him. This one named Driscoll who is evil in almost every movie he is
in and turned out to be the traitor in The Big Hit. I think. It has
been a while since I've seen that movie. Spenser meets his new
roommate Hawk who is vegan, good with Pearl, and trains fighting. He
has a dark past. Cissy shows up at the gym and she is terrible. Just
a no good angry ass lady. She breaks up with him even though by all
intents and purposes they were already. Spenser finds the dead cops
wife who was framed and says he will help prove his innocence. The
cops are all like “This is pretty open and shut.” They dirty!
They all dirty!
The
rest of the movie is unraveling more twists and dirty people in the
city and gangs and big trucks and a dude getting his face dunked in
foot water. I didn't hate this movie at all. The complaints I have
are about the music at certain times. Songs I liked but used at bad
times. They had one scene where Spenser curses and it is bleeped out.
Not an actual bleep but the volume drops. This is Netflix. The fuck
you doing that for? They could totally make a series out of this and
I'd check it out. Eventually.
Mark
Wahlberg as Spenser
Winston
Duke as Hawk
Alan
Arkin as Henry Cimoli
Iliza
Shlesinger as Cissy Davis
James
DuMont as “Tracksuit Charlie” Bentwood
Bokeem
Woodbine as Driscoll
Marc
Maron as Wayne Cosgrove
Austin
Post as Squeeb
Michael
Gaston as Captain Boylan
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