"Doing a little private investigating?" asks an FBI agent of the title character played by Mark Wahlberg in the Netflix reboot of Robert B.
Parker's iconic private detective character. "I haven't really come up with a title yet for what I'm doing," Spenser replies.
That sense of aimlessness sums up the essence of Spenser Confidential, which arbitrarily and perversely jettisons so much of what fans of Parker's 40 novels and the '80s-era television series Spenser: For Hire came to know and love.
Other than the obvious star power, this tired action-comedy directed by the actor's frequent collaborator Peter Berg feels more like the pilot of a short-lived summer broadcast television series than the film franchise to which it clearly aspires.
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