![]() * Wahlberg developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances by 13, and had dropped out of high school when he was 14. * During his youth, he had an encounter with Boston Police Department about 20 to 25 times as he developed an addiction to cocaine. ![]() * During his time as “Marky Mark”, Wahlberg served as an underwear model for Calvin Klein. * Mark is a distant relative of author Nathaniel Hawthorne on his mom’s side. He is also distantly related to Celine Dion, Halle Berry, and Madonna. * He started his career as a rapper and got famous by the name “Marky Mark” in 1991. * Former baseball player, Derek Jeter is a big fan of him. Donna Wahlberg is Donnie's elder half-sister from his dad's side. * Wahlberg owns a Massachusetts based burger joint Wahlburgers. She is reportedly married with two kids, Eric and Alyssa. She had two brothers but one of them passed. In 2008, Donnie's half-brother Buddy Wahlberg died for unknown reasons. His living half-brother Scott Wahlberg is married and lives in Boston. ![]() * Mark was at #1 place in “Hottest Hotties of the 90’s” list by VH1. It could certainly be much worse, but there is also a lot of potential left on the table.* Wahlberg considers the 2002 film “The Truth About Charlie” as his worst film. Rather than being a raucous buddy movie or a taut Boston-set thriller, Spenser Confidential’s profile as a viewing experience is more akin to a film playing on television on Saturday morning: something you can play in the background and tune in and out of without ever losing track of the plot. It’s an energy you wish more of the film had. It’s charming to watch a hero constantly get knocked down – either by villains, or, in one particularly great sequence, a protective guard dog – and then get back up to keep fighting the good fight. What certainly works in Spenser Confidential’s favor is the fact that it doesn’t ever take itself too seriously, and the best result of that is its fight scenes, most of which feature the titular character getting his ass whupped and being able to walk away only because of stamina and/or outside help. At the very least, watching Spenser take a series of serious beatings is entertaining. Given their past performances and characters, one could definitely see characters played by Mark Wahlberg and Winston Duke clicking on screen, but the movie never gives them the material needed to show them as a good fit. They both bring their own tools and resources to the case, but spare for a few training scenes there’s never a moment where they fully click as a duo. ![]() Part of it comes from a lack of parity in the size of the roles, as the focus on the former in the movie definitely outweighs the focus on the latter, but the issues are mostly rooted in character, and how Spenser Confidential never makes a real focused effort to develop their relationship. Mark Wahlberg and Winston Duke seem like they’d be a great on screen pair, but the material doesn’t allow it.Ī further extension from the bland script, the film is also unable to cultivate the chemistry-filled dynamic that you want from Spenser and Hawk. Without saying too much in this spoiler-free forum, it’s obvious who the villains are just because of the transparency of certain roles getting a bit more focus in the casting process. There are some extremely minor tweaks in the familiar, like Spenser actually committing the crime he went to jail for instead of being the victim of a frame job, but that doesn’t take the movie far.Īll the details of the investigation move the film in the exact directions you expect, and it fails to generate a single surprise or twist. A super basic plot never allows Spenser Confidential to get interesting.īy their nature, buddy movies are primarily meant to be driven by characters and the relationship between the leads, but even still there is some expectation for compelling story, and Spenser Confidential never even starts to get one going.
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