Actors: Mark Wahlberg, J. K. Simmons,
John Goodman, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Jimmy O. Yang
Rating: 9 out of 10, I wasn’t sure if
it was too early in the process for a film about the marathon bombings but
Peter Berg once again dials up a very nice ode to the heroes of a real world
disaster. Wahlberg limps, for some reason, through in his usual Mass-hole
personae but the movie truly belongs to the effective and behind the scenes
heroic hunt for the idiotic bombers. While Boston is highlighted the message
for me was the way any American city would respond to this challenge. If you
push, we’re going to push back. Some of the little known heroes were also given
their time to shine like the tiny Chinese immigrant who bravely escaped the
bombers’ clutches which led to the ultimate capture and the Watertown police
who ended up in a massive firefight including bombs. You want to say this is an
important film which may sound pretentious but this was a very good story,
extremely well told.
MVP: Jimmy O. Yang as Dun Meng, the true hero of
the story
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