'As he proved over and over again during that golden period when he was one of our most exciting actors, he is capable of so much more.' BilgeEbiri writes on Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg as a cop in The Departed, a former cop in Spenser Confidential, an existentially conflicted firefighter in I Heart Huckabees, and a porn star in Boogie Nights. Photo: Vulture and Courtesy of the Studios I realize the world has other, far more important things on its mind — as do I — but I need to get something off my chest.I’ve actually been concerned for several years, but after seeing his new Netflix movie Spenser Confidential , I cannot stay silent any longer.
But I was taken with the actor’s vital sense of menace, that same weirdly dangerous charisma Wahlberg would mine in his subsequent turn as a charming bad boy who seduces Reese Witherspoon and then terrorizes her family in James Foley’s across-the-tracks romantic thriller Fear. It’s not the greatest of films, but the two leads are wonderful in it — you could tell they were both headed for stardom — and Wahlberg is the main reason we keep watching.
After Boogie Nights, Wahlberg was off to the races, with parts in a couple of dreadfully sleazy but financially successful action films , as well as more ambitious dramas that called on him to play beleaguered heroes , ignorant but ultimately compassionate grunts , and earnest romantics .
The year 2010 found Wahlberg starring in two of his best movies. In Russell’s The Fighter, his submerged energy as a down-and-out prizefighter works marvelously against Christian Bale’s demented, Oscar-winning turn as his crackhead brother; the wilder Bale is, the more Wahlberg looks like he wants to disappear into his shell forever, which just happens to be the central dynamic in this story of a boxer struggling to get out from under his overbearing, toxic sibling’s broken dreams.
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