Spenser Confidential

Spenser Confidential - Mark Wahlberg | Official Trailer | Netflix Film
A light hearted romp through the mean streets of Boston with Mark Wahlberg and his sidekick Hawk, played by Winston Duke. Gotta give Winston credit, undertaking to play a character previously played by Avery Brooks. We watched Spenser: For Hire when it was broadcast a few years ago. Oops just checked, it was over 30 years ago. We watched the heck out of that series, and the best part of it was Avery Brooks playing Hawk. He might only say five or six words in each episode, but they had more impact that the whole rest of the show. Course you need the whole rest of the show to set up the situation where Avery uttering a couple of words will have a big impact.

Anyway, this is a pretty standard crime / action movie. Lots of fisticuffs, sometimes it's a good person going down, but it's usually the good guy beating the stuffing out of some scumbag. Hit 'em again Mark! I've seen Wahlberg in a bunch of movies (a bunch? let's say six plus or minus a dozen), some pretty good, some just so-so, but they were all entertaining. I've watched him so much I almost feel like I know him. You know how you can identify someone just by the way they walk even when they are too far away for you to be able to see their face? It's kind of like that. Kind of spooky even.

There were a couple of really funny bits, and the girlfriend is spectacular. It took a talented girl and a gifted writer to create her.