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3.6 of 5 from 513 ratings
2h 8min
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- Synopsis:
- Based upon the dramatic real-life manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers, this powerful action-thriller follows Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Mark Wahlberg) as he joins brave survivors, first responders, and investigators in a race against time to find the bombers before they strike again. Directed by Peter Berg and featuring a stellar cast, 'Patriots Day' is a stirring tribute to the Boston community's strength and courage in the face of adversity.
- Actors:
- Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, J.K. Simmons, Dicky Eklund Jr., Michael Marchand, Rhet Kidd, John Goodman, Frank Czarnowski, Christopher O'Shea, Rachel Brosnahan, Jake Picking, Lana Condor, Jerry Dwyer Jr., Patrick Wensing, Michael Chuah, Sang-bae Kim, Jimmy O. Yang, Ping Ping Yang, Wingkay Leung, Caitlin Stoorza
- Directors:
- Peter Berg
- Producers:
- Dorothy Aufiero, Dylan Clark, Stephen Levinson, Hutch Parker, Michael Radutzky, Scott Stuber, Mark Wahlberg
- Voiced By:
- Bettina Kenney
- Writers:
- Peter Berg, Matt Cook, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Joshua Zetumer
- Studio:
- Lionsgate Films
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/06/2017
- Run Time:
- 133 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital Late Night Listening 2.0, English DTS Headphone: X, English DTS:X, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing, French Hard of Hearing, Spanish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Boston Strong: 3 True Stories of Courage
- Researching the Day
- The Boston Bond: Recounting the Tale
- The Cast Remembers
- Actors Meet Real-Life Counterparts: A 2 Part Series
- The Real Patriots: The Local Heroes' Stories
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/06/2017
- Run Time:
- 133 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital Late Night Listening 2.0, English DTS Headphone: X, English DTS:X, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing, French Hard of Hearing, Spanish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Boston Strong: 3 True Stories of Courage
- Researching the Day
- The Boston Bond: Recounting the Tale
- The Cast Remembers
- Actors Meet Real-Life Counterparts: A 2 Part Series
- The Real Patriots: The Local Heroes' Stories
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Reviews (10) of Patriots Day
sad event - Patriots Day review by CP Customer
I enjoyed watching this film , but very sad that its based on events that happend to innocent people .
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
Emotional hug-fest biopic - but very bitty and uneven - Patriots Day review by PV
This is the sort of film aimed at making an audience cry - and it's full of male characters crying too, which is a very American fashion now.
It is an emo-fest really - telling the story (based on truth but how much so?) of the Boston bombing in which 3 people died.
Well, 3 innocent people killed and everyone hugs and cries and makes a movie about it. BUT how many people get shot dead every single week in the USA eh? I couldn't help thinking that when watching this.
The constant forcing of emotion through the film annoyed me greatly - all group hugs and man tears. Makes me wonder how we ever won the war (that's WWII actually). London endured 3 months of bombing from September 1940 every single night and 50,000 people died. Compare and contrast with this relatively minor event.
If you life self help manuals and group hugs, and like a good cry, then you'll like wallowing in this.
I did like the scenes hunting the terrorists and the interview with the suspect's wife - and women play a HUGE role in all these terrorist attacks actually, something feminists constantly want to deny as they blame men.
So it's all so-so. 2 stars.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
A good character study as well as shining a light on the many ordinary people forgotten by the media - Patriots Day review by Timmy B
After the incredible Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon, Peter Berg & his co-star Mark Wahlberg continued their collaboration together, again looking to examine in a docu-drama style way a catastrophic event, as well as the actions of the many ordinary people caught up within it. And as a proud Bostonian, after the bombings which hit the marathon in 2013, there was really only one story to tell. Patriots Day looks at the lead-up to the bombing, then follows the aftermath, as well as the enormous collective effort to not only catch the bombers but also to rebuild the community in the wake of the tragedy.
When I first watched this film, I actually didn’t like it that much. I was in many ways expecting a continuation at the same massively high level of quality as the duo’s previous collaborations. And Patriots Day is not in that same league. One of the biggest issues, which in one way there wasn’t too much they could do about, was the fact that in this film Wahlberg is playing a composite character, as opposed to real individuals in the previous movies. And the fact that it is multiple people’s experiences shoe-horned into one character simply didn’t work. To quote one of the other reviews, the film is quite bitty & uneven.
Wahlberg’s Tommy Saunders is a rough & ready cop who is also a physical wreck. We meet him as he is taking part in a raid on a property. He is forced to police the Boston marathon event the next day, where the Tsarnaev brothers detonate two bombs, killing & maiming countless people. From there, Saunders becomes an integral part of the investigation at all stages, through to the capture of one of the brothers.
But despite my earlier criticism, this film benefits from being rewatched. And the second time I watched it, I actually really enjoyed it. Yes, the same issues are still there, but for me what shined through most was the massive effort to include & show how ordinary Bostonians were impacted & also came together. There is a sharp, sometimes caustic but also friendly humour that they have, which even extended to the police who were not shown as being universally popular in the film.
Also, one of the other strings to particularly Berg’s bow is how good he is with action scenes. The tension & build-up, as you follow the brothers inching closer to carrying out the atrocity is unbearable at times. Berg also includes elements of footage from the day to devastating effect, the most prominent one for me being the genuine CCTV footage of one person’s escape. As the pursuit gains traction, you really find yourself buying into the world that the film has carefully been laying the foundations of. And whilst not all of it works, a decent amount of it does, which means there is a lot of enjoyment to be had.
For me, having seen the previous work & results that Berg, Wahlberg and their team can achieve, looking back on this film now, it would have actually made a stunning TV series, which meant that a lot of the events which had to be cut out in order to have a sensible running time could have been properly fleshed out. It is clear to me that the creative team care deeply about the events & people affected, which also importantly included extremely close collaboration with the Boston population, especially who live in the streets where the final scenes happen.
So whilst there are some significant problems with this film, it is also a genuine attempt to honour the victims of this disgusting tragedy, showing the decency that the overwhelming majority of people in the world have, especially those who are part of a tight-knit community.
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Critic review
Patriots Day review by Adrijan Arsovski - Cinema Paradiso
The trouble with these kinds of movies pertaining to recent tragedies that negatively affect public interests is that it’s almost impossible to objectively judge the film itself whist distanced from the real-world event the film’s based upon. With that in mind, Patriots Day is a decent film that unfortunately does not fulfill its full potential like, say, Oliver Stone’s JFK did some years back. To this extent, Patriots Day is a good rendition, a solid try, but an ultimate miss of a story that could’ve been explored bigger, better, and deeper as opposed to the finished product audiences got in the end.
Patriots day is directed by Peter Berg and stars Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michelle Monaghan, and others. The film heavily draws from several police officers’ experiences at the exact days the bombs went off (Boston Marathon Bombings) and merges these experiences into Wahlberg’s Tommy Saunders – an uncompromising, tough police officer with clear ideals and a special knack for justice. Which tells just one side of the whole story.
The second part of the story is inevitably the people who committed the crimes, i.e. bombings. As shown in the film, these individuals are not some faceless antagonists who want to do bad just for the sake of it, but rather people with names, surnames, and their own personal agendas and underlying causes as well. But as we come to learn, sometimes even the noblest of intentions (however disillusioned they may be) can harm the well-being of others, of innocents.
Patriots Day falters in many respects, with the main one being the overt-dramatization and bloating of everyday events that are as boring as buying a carton of milk. And because the film itself has to appeal to a certain audience in order to sell, the team behind it did everything in their power to inflate certain events and even come up with nonexistent ones in order to achieve that “bigger than life” feel that just doesn’t work as well as they envisioned it. The story of the 2013 bombing marathon is just too recent to transform it into a compelling thriller. In fact, where Edward Snowden’s Citizenfour succeeds, Patriots Day falters, mainly because it’s shot as a TV flick whereas it would’ve worked better if it’d received the documentary treatment instead. But alas, it wasn’t meant to be: the tentacles of Hollywood probe deep, expand and contract at their own leisure, and hold little regard for what audiences actually want to see VS what they THINK audiences should see. It’s like a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom: what people say they like usually turns the other way around when all is said and done.
Finally, Patriots Day is a decent film depicting recent history the way the United States sees it, and this is perfectly fine as long as you’re a citizen of Uncle Sam’s.