Patriots Day
Lionsgate | Release Date: December 21, 2016
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SydmwswyOct 19, 2021
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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SakeenehFeb 28, 2017
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Don't know if this is actually a spoiler but just in case : When a film is 'Based On True Events' and it is almost as a matter of fact entirely and truly based on the true events, it is extremely disappointing and shocking when Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife is being questioned and said that she is born in Iran (and pausing after the sentence) - when, in fact his American wife - Katherine Russell - was born in Texas, USA. It is exactly because of people like Peter Berg, Paul Tamasy, Dave Wedge, Eric Johnson and whoever else wrote the "story" of this movie that Americans - and Americans only - become hateful and fearful of countries like Iran.

Why would you do that? Why when almost all events in the movie are true, would you change this very important fact that she was American and born in the United States to being born in Iran ?

Shame on you. Shame.… Expand
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Brent_MarchantJan 15, 2017
Despite a number of truly compelling sequences, several fine performances (especially that of Alex Wolff) and a lot of good intentions, this re-creation of the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing unfortunately comes upDespite a number of truly compelling sequences, several fine performances (especially that of Alex Wolff) and a lot of good intentions, this re-creation of the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing unfortunately comes up somewhat uneven. The film definitely gets better as it goes along, but its first 45 minutes drag needlessly at times with production values that are about on par with an average made-for-TV movie. Overall a nice try that, with some shoring up, could have made it a much better picture.… Expand
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AxeTDec 26, 2016
Serious incredibly harrowing recent true story blown by horribly shot handheld crap techniques and is also piss poorly cut for the most part. The filmmakers will try to claim this awful style is more realistic and puts you into the storySerious incredibly harrowing recent true story blown by horribly shot handheld crap techniques and is also piss poorly cut for the most part. The filmmakers will try to claim this awful style is more realistic and puts you into the story which could not be more of a ridiculous fallacy. Why simulate a poorly shot documentary in a narrative feature, especially a substantially budgeted Hollywood motion picture? It has the exact opposite effect on an audience who is much better off watching Dateline, 48 Hours, or YouTube than sitting through this. The hack director is to blame of course. He has no visual sense, lousy aesthetic taste, no understanding of cinema beyond the surface, and no true care or insight into audience psychology. Dopey approving youths who don't care or know any better make for an unsophisticated audience. He may be just swell to work with and run a set on schedule and budget, which certainly not everyone can do, but plenty in Hollywood can just fine and with way better results! Also the stars who stupidly, blindly go along in their blanket trust instead of saying "hold on, I'm not okay appearing in that cheap gimmicky style" are also every bit to blame and prove themselves typically oblivious. As it is, some of the dialogue and how it's delivered is laughably phony.

This movie has so many time/setting sub-titles it nearly becomes spoof. And no disrespect to the actual victims and responders to the terrorist evil, but the epilogue of them actually talking on camera is so out of place and goes on so long it completely negates the attempted spell that just transpired. It's yet another dumb trend in movies based on true stories, but rarely has it been so botched and misconceived as here by the hacks behind the scenes. Even so, the subject and certain scenes are so compelling the rating here is an accurate overall impression.

The jackass sheep critics may follow the flock and go for this because they routinely fall for subject matter when they should be criticizing the artifice itself.… Expand
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TyranianApr 12, 2019
Solid Wahlberg film with decent story and writing. Did seem a bit too familiar though.
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Mosh603Apr 16, 2018
I only watched this because I'm from Boston. First of all, its extremely exaggerated. Secondly, how the hell is Mark Whalberg involved in every aspect of the Boston Bombing? He just happens to be involved in EVERY major event across theI only watched this because I'm from Boston. First of all, its extremely exaggerated. Secondly, how the hell is Mark Whalberg involved in every aspect of the Boston Bombing? He just happens to be involved in EVERY major event across the timeline as a Boston Police Officer. Give me a break.… Expand
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MattBrady99Apr 24, 2018
Another tragedy type film by Peter Berg which you start to see often now, but Mark Wahlberg was phenomenal in this movie, especially towards the end.
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PipeCJul 22, 2017
"Patriots Day" Honors the Heroes of Its Title

So the feature film that concludes, apparently, that directional volition about dramatizing the confrontation between a daring and patriotic paladin against a painful misfortune is "Patriots"Patriots Day" Honors the Heroes of Its Title

So the feature film that concludes, apparently, that directional volition about dramatizing the confrontation between a daring and patriotic paladin against a painful misfortune is "Patriots Day", a work with ambiguous messages and diverted pretensions taking back in time the unity and tenacity feeling that arose on April 15, 2013 by a thriller docudrama with a rather slow pace, which doesn't use all its options due to a arrhythmic editing work, an un- strategic directional style and an unglued narrative thread, at least, with regard to the babel of supporting characters and formulaic flaws, taking into account the previous works of this patriotic and concise filmmaker.

Boston has managed to recompose from a pair of blows which collapsed a stable community. The terrorist attack, perpetrated by a Kyrgyz and a Soviet, which shook the annual and traditional Boston Marathon, near the finish line. Is there any bait more customary—crowded by the fervent patriotic sense—than an American athletic competition to congregate an immense deluge of pale faces around two explosions inspired by the animadversion-blasts? In this episode that left traces on the skin of the people from Boston is placed the story of Berg and Wahlberg, however, the leading actor in the story is the only apocryphal character in all that sea of realities. Tommy Saunders is a dipsomaniac sergeant, who to be active again in the assignment of true significance cases, he must be responsible for guarding the most important athletic event for his people, with not only a bruised knee, also his ego.

Despite the diminished expertise, the director understands in advance what he wants and what utensils are essential to carry out his task: pay homage the brave men with an impressive wisdom, which helped them to not lose their sanity in the midst of such a maelstrom of madness. Appreciable is the dedicated approach to the supporting characters, showing a **** and coarse caution with respect to the exposition and corresponding ephemeris of those affected people by the terrorist attack, affected people with an introduction and conclusion as constrained as unsatisfactory. On the other side of the coin are the saviors, the main heroes of the odyssey led by Wahlberg, actor who has woven a consistent work camaraderie with Berg because of the services provided and whose best executed performance in the film triplet is achieved here, considering the overacting anti-terrorism message unsuitable basic and tacky that manifests the aberrant skills of the screenwriters for incorporating a required hopeful and educational lesson, an actor who continues his acting journey towards Ithaca, that symbolizes the property that only experience can confer: the apprehension that less is more, sometimes. Together with him are veracious titans in the field ranging from Simmons to Bacon, from Monaghan to Goodman, some actors impersonating researchers, others in roles of interviewer, keeping as a common factor the need to pay tribute to the true heroes. The script, which is riddled with possibilities, only manages to bring out a couple of them, leaving up in the air the potential of other conceptions that, with a different polishing, would have made the pleasures of the fussiest moviegoers. It's made up of a mosaic of ideas from three screenwriters that, most of the time, doesn't conclude on anything really optimized. The film expels core proposals that end up on the scrap heap due to they don't have a sense of direction.

As for the recreation of the events, which was one of the most attractive and magnetic points for the audience, they decently built the calamity witnessed a few years ago. Opting for gunfights and chases executed with a hand-held camera, these result in an untidiness becoming disappointing, the fluctuation of the cameraman can be palpable, softening the meager beauty in the midst of so much human monstrosity. But there are fantastic scenes as the moment after the explosion from a high-angle shot.

Berg fulfills his concern: to pay homage, full stop. It won't become a pressing classic about either American tragedies nor about the battle of a man for saving his people, but what matters here is the goal of the director: to honor those who were genuinely in the claws of smoke, fire, and turmoil. FBI agent, spectator, runner, Yankee, Latin American, of the yellow race, child, adult, needy, wealthy, clumsy, intellectual: human, everything is condensed in that, we're all human and we have to support ourselves in the time of cholera, in order to preserve our species. Ultimately, that's the moral message of the movie, and although this aura failed to encompass the event in its entirety, at least managed to communicate what generated the tragedy, which, by the misfortune of the attackers, had counterproductive sequels due to the bombs didn't divide us, these ones unified us.… Expand
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RogerJrNov 14, 2019
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amheretojudgeApr 29, 2018
i have rights..

Patriots Day The emotions depicted in here communicates easily and effectively with the audience but the feature seems scattered into bits and pieces; that are engaging and nail biting, but in terms of a whole package, iti have rights..

Patriots Day

The emotions depicted in here communicates easily and effectively with the audience but the feature seems scattered into bits and pieces; that are engaging and nail biting, but in terms of a whole package, it isn't concrete as it appears. Peter Berg's execution skills helps sail it smoothly off to the shore, but the real culprit is the adapted screenplay that could have done better with some strict editing. There isn't a protagonist to follow in, hence it relies a lot upon different supporting cast like Mark Wahlberg, J.K. Simmons, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Rachel Brosnan and John Goodman. Patriot's Day is an open love letter to all those real heroes and works like a charm on terms of factual information and accuracy but as far as drama is concerned, it required some more of it.… Expand
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