Mark Wahlberg continues his series of penance-seeking movies with this schmaltzy inspirational dog drama. Our Arthur the King review:
, Mark Wahlberg is back in our theaters with a second film from English director Simon Cellan Jones. Less an instance of an auteur in his grindset mode, this double dose was apparently due to production and distribution issues ondelaying the release of a film initially announced five years ago, filmed three years ago and then languishing since. Meanwhile,was filmed in late 2022 and released months later, sating any and all Jones/Wahlberg purists.
Wahlberg stars as Michael Light, an American version of Lindnord: A middle-aged adventure racer who’s since quieted down into domestication with his wife and daughter. Michael has completed many a tournament but never taken home gold, retiring briefly after a humiliating defeat three years prior which was mockingly shared on Instagram by fellow team competitor Leo . In the movie’s present of 2014, Michael decides to assemble a team for one last rodeo and one last shot at proving himself.
At the same time as Michael haphazardly preps to lead his ragtag team—climber Olivia , hobbled navigator Chik and Instagram influencer Leo— through punishing terrain, a scruffy stray dog, hungry and beaten on the streets of Santo Domingo, wanders the city until fate leads him right to Michael’s meatballs.
A film all but bereft of interiority for its characters , there is nevertheless a quickness to the pacing and a smooth-brained intrigue to’s simple story that compels the brain forth as if towards a shiny toy.
It’s possible that Wahlberg sees himself as Jesus Christ carrying the cross on his back in the form of, say, someone taking a huge paycheck to pretend to be a real-life athlete who bonds with a stray dog. Maybe doing enoughand uh, well, the hate crimes. Whether or not Wahlberg truly sees this film as another stepping stone on his path to absolution,is certainly better than a Lifetime movie.
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