The Departed
Mark Wahlberg ’s latest movieSpenser Confidentialhas dropped on Netflix , and the film may control a surprising , mock gossip about one of his previous movies;The Departed . Wahlberg ’s latest squad - up with director Peter Berg ( Mile 22,Patriots Day , Deepwater Horizon),Spenser Confidentialbeen released to less - than - stellar followup , although audience have been slightly warmer to the action / criminal offense comedy ( indue the flick a slimly above - modal audience score of 59 % on Rotten Tomatoes ) .
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Spenser Confidentialsees Mark Wahlberg ’s disgrace ex - cop ( Spenser ) investigate the untrusting deaths of some of his former colleagues on the force espouse his button from prison . Teaming up with his newfound roommate Hawk ( Winston Duke ) , Spenser twist up tag a local Irish mob enforcer by the name of Tracksuit Charlie ; explaining who the modest - time gangster is to his age bracket , Spenser allege ;
" Tracksuit Charlie Bentwood . Irish mob throwback , back when the Irish mob be out of all those sh*tty pic . "
For any Mark Wahlberg fan , the first film they ’re going to think of when Spenser set down this pearl is going to beThe depart ; arguably one of his most memorable roles , which happens to be about the Irish crime syndicate . In the Martin Scorsese movie , Wahlberg act irate , smart - aleck Staff Sergeant Dignan , who frequently taunts Leonardo DiCaprio ’s hole-and-corner bull , Billy Costigan . Wahlberg ’s role in the movie is lovingly think of , givingThe Departedsome of its best lines . It ’s surprising , then , that Wahlberg appears to make a jibe at the movie inSpenser Confidential . So wasThe Departedthe intended object from the thrusting inSpenser Confidential ? Or is it aimed more at ' Irish rout ' pic in world-wide ?
The screenwriter ofSpenser Confidentialis much - glorify writer Brian Helgeland , who is also responsible for such forward-looking classics asLA ConfidentialandMystic River . The latter sport Sean Penn as a local Irish mobster ; could Helgeland be make a dig at his own dead body of workplace ? Penn score himself an Oscar for his role as Jimmy Markum in that prestigiousness scene back in 2004 ; it seems unlikely that it should be the butt of any form of bouncy one - ocean liner fromMark Wahlberg inSpenser Confidential . Could it be Helgeland throw shade atThe Departed ?
Helgeland actually share write acknowledgment onSpenser Confidentialwith a newer writer to the industry call Sean O’Keefe ; the dig at Irish mobsters on covert could just as easy as come from him . Whether fans need the line to be an offhand joke or a specific volley at a finicky motion-picture show , in the end , is up to them .
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