The new movie Arthur the King, starring Mark Wahlberg and a shaggy dog, is one of the best things Hollywood has done in years.
, with actor Mark Wahlberg and a mangy dog named Arthur leading an extreme-sports team across 400 miles of jungle, is the bestI mean this superlative in the sense that whereas a pool of clear, fresh water in the Adirondacks is lovely, a same-sized pool of clear, fresh water in thehas been a storytelling desert. One genre is of the uber-jaded variety, in which bad guys are protagonists because their “virtue” is being more ruthless than the other bad guys, in a world where nobody is even decent.
Genre three is the meander-fest: The story that isn’t really a story at all because it has no clear beginning and certainly no end, in which the whole hackneyed point seems to be that the story is the journey itself, but with the difference that the journey itself doesn’t even mean anything but instead is just pointlessly random.
The main storyline is simple: Wahlberg plays Michael Light , an “adventure racer” with plenty of impressively good results to his name but no big victories. He wants to ditch his day job for one more shot at glory, this time leading a four-person team in brutal conditions in the Dominican Republic . But one teammate he recruits has a bad knee, another may have gotten soft by focusing on social media stardom, and another carries the burden of a major family challenge.
At an early-race checkpoint, Light feeds some meatballs to a stray mutt, and amazingly, the mutt shows up again more than 100 jungle miles later, determined to keep pace with what may be the only creatures who ever,showed him kindness. From there, the strong-willed pooch, suffering from foul-smelling, worm-filled abscesses, becomes not a burden but a valued team member.
As this is indeed what happened to Lindnord’s team in 2014 in Ecuador, the viewer doesn’t need to suspend disbelief because, by gosh,. Meanwhile, the trek itself is harrowing, with one scene on a zip line so well filmed that it’s sure to cause heart palpitations even for the most cynical of viewers.
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