Hesitated to rent this movie cause I'm not really keen on watching what I assumed would be a two hour long Boston PD and Boston in general circle jerk.

But I like Peter Berg and the positive comments encouraged me. So I'll be watching this tonight.

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Originally posted by Dusty78:
He wasn't the chief he is a SGT.

For some reason I got the impression he was the Police Chief of Watertown, why was that?

I also was skipping it. I get angry when I see people forced out of their homes like criminals.

But I guess I will watch it.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by Dusty78:
He wasn't the chief he is a SGT.

For some reason I got the impression he was the Police Chief of Watertown, why was that?

Probably because he was the shift commander at the time.

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Originally posted by Paragon:
I also was skipping it. I get angry when I see people forced out of their homes like criminals.

But I guess I will watch it.

They were forced in not out

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Originally posted by Dusty78:
I think he just reloaded and quickly and just started shooting as fast as he could. He wasn't the chief he is a SGT. if you watch the featurettes they have a long interview with him and he takes you to the house and shows you all the bullet holes from the rounds that went around him.

I was thinking while watching it that if this happened in any free state AR barrels would be poking out from ever window in most houses aiming at the bad guys.

But then you wouldn't have had the commical scene of the guy lending a hammer to the police.

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Originally posted by steelcityfishanddive:

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Originally posted by Dusty78:
I think he just reloaded and quickly and just started shooting as fast as he could. He wasn't the chief he is a SGT. if you watch the featurettes they have a long interview with him and he takes you to the house and shows you all the bullet holes from the rounds that went around him.

I was thinking while watching it that if this happened in any free state AR barrels would be poking out from ever window in most houses aiming at the bad guys.

But then you wouldn't have had the commical scene of the guy lending a hammer to the police.

Which, as funny as it was, it didn't actually happen.

"Mini sledge...give'em Hell Sahhjjjj!"

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Originally posted by CQB60:
Wahlberg fails to impress me as his character approach doesn't seem to change with each new role. Sorry folks

I don't know how I missed this movie the first go round, but watched it last night. As CQB60 says, Wahlberg is a limited range actor. He's likeable, but seems to play the same character in each movie.

That being said, I liked the movie. The part that grabbed me the most was the state trooper standing guard over the body of the young boy who was killed. I didn't know if that was real or Hollywood and googled it. Seems it was a mixture of both, but very powerful nonetheless.

The movie got one key detail wrong about the day of the bombings. It showed a lone State Police trooper standing watch over the body of a victim who was killed in the Boylston Street blasts. In reality, a team of several officers from the Boston Police Department covered the bodies of Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu with tablecloths from restaurants there and for about 12 hours stood vigil over them until law enforcement forensics specialists were able to gather evidence from the crime scene.

Really makes me want to come more moslems in to our country and give them welfare. They will be grateful.....and our magnificent FBI will keep us safe. Sorry...little bit of Boston bred disgust.

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Originally posted by Dusty78:
It was good. Made me mad like when I watched 13 hours.

Me too.

It started on Netflix today and we watched it tonight. I don't think the shootout was at night but I'm sure that was an event/time compression thing maybe. I do not remember an effective use of explosives during that shootout being reported either.

Just like back then, I was ready to cut the boat kid and his sister-in-law into little pieces, alive, by the end of it all.