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  • 2020
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  • Netflix
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 51 m

Summary Spenser (Mark Wahlberg) - an ex-cop better known for making trouble than solving it - just got out of prison and is leaving Boston for good. But first he gets roped into helping his old boxing coach and mentor, Henry (Alan Arkin), with a promising amateur. That's Hawk (Winston Duke), a brash, no-nonsense MMA fighter convinced he'll be a ...

Directed By: Peter Berg

Written By: Sean O'Keefe, Brian Helgeland, Robert B. Parker, Ace Atkins

  • 2020
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2020
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 51 m

Spenser Confidential

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
49
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 71 User Ratings
6.1
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Summary Spenser (Mark Wahlberg) - an ex-cop better known for making trouble than solving it - just got out of prison and is leaving Boston for good. But first he gets roped into helping his old boxing coach and mentor, Henry (Alan Arkin), with a promising amateur. That's Hawk (Winston Duke), a brash, no-nonsense MMA fighter convinced he'll be a ...

Directed By: Peter Berg

Written By: Sean O'Keefe, Brian Helgeland, Robert B. Parker, Ace Atkins

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
49
30% Positive
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
9 Reviews
25% Negative
5 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
49
30% Positive
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
9 Reviews
25% Negative
5 Reviews

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88
Mar 6, 2020
It’s a fantastically over-the-top, drive-in B-movie for the streaming generation.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW
65
Mar 10, 2020
As Berg and Wahlberg (perfect partners, even in name) ascended inexorably toward a parodic level of Bostonian-ness in Spenser Confidential, I wondered if I wouldn’t be having a better time just getting a more concentrated dose of Arkin in The Kominsky Method.
By Karen Han FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 71 User Ratings
6.1
45% Positive
32 Ratings
45% Mixed
32 Ratings
10% Negative
7 Ratings

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Generally Favorable Based on 71 User Ratings
6.1
45% Positive
32 Ratings
45% Mixed
32 Ratings
10% Negative
7 Ratings

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slowgeorge
Mar 22, 2020
Very entertaining movie! We used to live in Boston and I greatly enjoyed the Boston accents :). The movie was funny and had good action. I liked it and so did my teenagers!
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10
Csm305
Mar 8, 2020
Good mix of action & comedy. Great movie. Really had a sense of good directing.
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60
Mar 6, 2020
The film even pokes fun at itself in the process, fully aware that Spenser Confidential isn’t meant to be taken as seriously as Wahlberg’s last few movies — and just as well, since irreverence plays well on Netflix.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
58
Mar 6, 2020
A boilerplate action-comedy, that, while not wholly original, provides enough memorable two-fisted tough guy action and likable characters to waste a Wednesday night with on the fly.
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42
Mar 6, 2020
While the partnership between Wahlberg and actor-turned-director Peter Berg has produced a few duds since the success of Lone Survivor, none have been as generically mediocre. At the very least, one can appreciate it for being environmentally friendly.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
25
Mar 6, 2020
An insipid buddy-cop mystery that feels like a forgotten artifact of the 1980s.
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16
Mar 9, 2020
Chalk this Team WahlBerg’s latest collaboration as a massive swing and miss, which ranks among the city’s worst cinematic disasters.
By Asher Luberto FULL REVIEW
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9
Hell3oy
Mar 6, 2020
I didn’t expect too much from this **** I was very **** made me smile a lot
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8
Rnsweetfun
Jul 21, 2020
Did not have high expectations but ended up being a really good movie, pleasantly surprised.
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6
MaxPayneIsGod
Oct 11, 2020
Entertaining but nothing original. Probably the 100th movie with this type of story Some good laughs Predictable time filler
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SamuelGN_22
Jan 11, 2021
Give Mark Wahlberg good credit, without him, Spenser Confidential would be less entertaining than it was. A very inferior action comedy compared to 21 Jump Street.
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5
OnlyOneWing
Jul 25, 2020
If you're looking for a fun movie to burn about two hours watching, go for it. But IMO it's neither a good action movie nor a good comedy. It feels like a made for TV movie. I won't spoil anything, but there are just so many plot holes and things that don't make sense in the movie. I had to wonder if it was laziness, very dry humor or just the creators assuming that the audience would be too dumb to notice. If Mark Wahlberg wasn't the lead actor, it wouldn't be worth watching. But Mark Wahlberg adds his usual flare to the movie, so it somehow remains enjoyable despite bland acting from basically everyone else with the exception of the blonde woman(Iliza Shlesinger). She was definitely the comic relief, her character and lines made me laugh pretty hard. This honestly would've been a better movie if they just made it a romance comedy rather than whatever the hell the nonsensical plot was supposed to be.
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Production Company Netflix, Original Film, Closest to the Hole Productions, Leverage Entertainment, Film 44
Release Date Mar 6, 2020
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The Law Has Limits. They Don't.
Website https://www.netflix.com/title/81005492
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Awards

Critics Choice Super Awards
• 1 Nomination
People's Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination

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