But Patriots Day, the third in the spiritual trilogy of true-life tales of heroism by director Pete Berg and star Mark Wahlberg, uses this rawness and this uncertainty to its advantage. Like Berg and Wahlberg’s previous couple of collaborations – Lone Survivor and the very recent Deepwater Horizon – Patriots Day is a ground-level telling of a story that could essentially have been told in a hundred different ways. Leading the cast, of course, is Mark Wahlberg, who’s really at his best playing blue-collar, working class heroes, and cops (think We Own the Night, The Yards, The Departed). President Trump would no doubt disagree with this, but the Boston bombing was an act of domestic, homegrown terrorism. The Tsarnaevs didn’t receive special al-Qaeda training, they weren’t radicalised in Pakistan; one of them in fact, was little more than a slacker.

Source: Hindustan Times March 03, 2017 05:03 UTC