Patriots Day

A great American movie about the greatness of ordinary Americans, Patriots Day combines an electrifying manhunt with the intimacy and feel for character writer-director Peter Berg showed in his brilliant TV series “Friday Night Lights.”

The hurtling action, speaking louder than any dialogue, gives a stirring sense of the suffering and heroism that flowed from the terror at the Boylston Street finish line.

As with all of Berg’s films, Patriots Day does an excellent job with sets and locales and is compulsively watchable.

Historians, media scholars and even Boston citizens may debate whether this is the most worthy way to honor those fallen in the attacks. But Berg mounts a heartfelt, harrowing tribute to the film’s real-life heroes.

The film, which swivels frantically between first responders, survivors, and investigators, has a percussive force, but its best scene, unbearably tense, is a quiet one, when a Chinese app designer (an excellent Jimmy O. Yang) is carjacked by the Tsarnaev brothers.

Wahlberg may have succeeded in singlehandedly cracking the case and bringing the perpetrators to justice but — like the film itself—he fails to find meaning in the wreckage.

Patriots Day may, in fact, embrace the spirit of the days following the bombing, but the scattered framing leaves one wanting more.

Mark Wahlberg plays a police officer involved in the search to find the terrorists behind the Boston Marathon bombing. This is one of several POVs in this gripping drama: It also explores stories of several survivors, the law enforcement procedures behind the pursuit and even the activities of the criminals. Director Peter Berg depicts the horrific event with electrifying skill and maintains the tension throughout the search, which includes several potent action sequences. The continual drone in the soundtrack by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross helps keep the pressure up. The cast is uniformly outstanding with Wahlberg exploring new emotional depths in his best screen performance yet. Not only is this a riveting, suspenseful police procedural, it takes an empowering patriotic stance that ultimately yields a moving final message.

Not bad.this is a neat ,full of exciting movie with true characters , the camera cine have plot , strong ,..but for the babys ....

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I was hoping Wahlberg might clean up his mouth for this one, especially because of the subject matter, but it seems as if he and Hollywood are trying their best to make the F...word acceptable in American society. What's wrong with these people? They know there are children watching these movies. Wahlberg's 'Ted' was one of the most disgusting films I've ever seen. When you go to see a film about a relationship between a guy and a teddy bear, you assume it's safe to take the kids, but all you got in Ted was sexual perversion, drug abuse, and vulgar language. Everyone is this movie had gutter mouths. Do the Boston police men and women really talk like that? What a shame! I'm glad I rented it. I don't think the money I spend on a rental finds it's way to Wahlberg and company. I'll never pay to see another movie with Wahlberg in it. Conservatives in America need to take a stand against this kind of garbage. This could have been an excellent movie, but to me, it wasn't even mediocre.

A totally needless film that exploits a national tragedy that happened less than 4 years ago and I am glad that no one bothered with it during the original theatrical release. I'm sure the director and the cast meant well but I think not only is it far too soon but it lacked the actual drama and turmoil that happened during these events. Instead they turned it into a corny action flick with sub plots that felt half baked.