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cheekybeeboo t1_j20kay0 wrote

I feel this is not just Wahlberg's best film in a decade, but the filmmaker Peter Berg's best ever. Genuinely a great film and fantastic example of merging dramatized recreations of events with the real life footage via those security cameras in the gas stations, etc. And of course Wahlberg's character is fictional but using him as a vehicle in which to tell the story is brilliant. I love this movie.

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TheCosmicFailure t1_j20xevm wrote

Most of the time Berg knows how to bring the best out of Wahlberg. Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon are their other collabs and they are both really good. They also have Spenser Confidential and Mile 22 which are pretty bad though.

It might be Peters best. But I would also say Friday Night Lights and Lone Survivor are up there as well.

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garrisontweed t1_j20z47g wrote

I will give Mark Wahlberg credit for showing in this and Deepwater Horzion that his characters aren’t tough guys,but show emotion.When he cry’s in Patriot Day or comforted by a family member near the end of Deepwater Horzion.There would be a lot of actors wouldn’t show that vulnerability.

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atclubsilencio OP t1_j21houu wrote

other than that one with The Rock which I only saw as a kid, it's definitely the best of his I've seen.

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