Spenser Confidential is a 2020 American action comedy film directed by Peter Berg and with a screenplay by Sean O'Keefe and Brian Helgeland. A far cry from the previous four movies that Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg have made together (the two men Voltron-ing into a single creative entity that will henceforth be referred to as “WahlBerg”), the hilariously titled “Spenser Confidential” is a High-Testosterone action thriller about a red-blooded, blue-collared, perpetually open-mouthed American patriot who decides to take matters into his own hands when some bad guys besmirch the good name of these United States.

This film which was released on March 6, 2020, by Netflix centers the plot of an ex-convict, former Boston police officer, whose task is to take down the Trinitario drug gang after two Boston officers were murdered. It is very loosely based on the novel Wonderland by Ace Atkins, and uses the names of characters created by Robert B. Parker, though the characters portrayed in this film have virtually no resemblance to the characters created by him. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger, Bokeem Woodbine, Donald Cerrone, Marc Maron, and Post Malone and marks the fifth collaboration between Wahlberg and Berg after Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day, and Mile 22.

Detective Spenser arrives to the home of Captain John Boylan with his partner Driscoll to question the Captain about the murder of a woman named Gloria Wiesnewski following the leakage of the footage tape of Wiesnewski which was leaked by Cosgrove.

The confrontation got too heated after Spenser witnessed the violation Captain Boylan made on his wife Mrs. Boylan which was bloody, Spenser got so angry and beats up Boylan and was subsequently sent to prison for the action.

Five years later, Spenser is released, and is picked up by his friend Henry Cimoli.

His ex, Cissy is there to his surprise but he runs and drives away with Henry, and stayed at Cimoli's residence with his roommate, Hawk.

At night, Boylan is driving while talking to his daughter over the phone.

A SUV hits him at a school bus yard and some hooded men drag him out from the car and beats him mercilessly, which his daughter can hear, before he was violently killed.

The next morning, a nurse named Letitia Graham comes home to find her husband Terrence dead in his car with a gunshot wound to his head.

Spenser is prime suspect in Boylan's murder, but was eventually let go by Driscoll as he was in Cimoli's residence during that time.

Spenser sees that Terrence is being accused of involvement in the murder, as well as news in the media that he possibly committed suicide out of guilt.

Spenser decides to take the case since he personally knew Terrence and knew he was a great cop.

After some mishaps and brawls throughout investigation, Spenser goes to Letitia’s apartment after it’s been vandalized, and she gives him an audio recording that Terrence hid between himself and Boylan.

The tape confirms that Boylan was a dirty cop, and that Bentwood, Macklin, and Driscoll all worked together, and it was Driscoll who struck the killing blow to Boylan.

Spenser brings the tape to the FBI, but they deem it insufficient evidence to go after Driscoll and to clear Graham's name.

Spenser finds Bentwood and violently interrogates him.

He confesses that there’s a shipment of drugs coming from New Hampshire to Wonderland, a casino syndicate of the dirty cops and the Trinitarios.

Spenser and Hawk find the van and run it off the road, taking down two crooks inside (but the other one escapes) before coming across the stash.

Spenser is later contacted by Driscoll, who knows that Spenser knows about him, told Spenser that Cimoli has been kidnapped and he forces him to meet at Wonderland within an hour.

Cissy and Hawk join in.

The three arrive in Wonderland, attacking the criminals and freeing Cimoli.

Spenser chases after Driscoll, and engages in a brawl where Spenser was overpowered, but he gained an upper hand against Driscoll.

However, he stopped just short of beating him the same way he beat Boylan to avoid returning to jail, and instead handcuffed him.

They leave the dirty cops outside with all the evidence, just as the police, and the FBI arrive to arrest Driscoll and his goons.

Terrence Graham was posthumously cleared from all charges.

In a restaurant, Spenser sees a news report of a church fire from two years earlier, and the Boston fire chief is under arrest though he claims to be innocent.

Spenser knows him from before, and predicts that he was about to take the case.

The film was produced by Neal H. Moritz through his Original Film along with Stephen Levinson and Wahlberg, and Berg through his Film 44.

In October 2018, Winston Duke joined the cast to play Hawk.

That same month, Post Malone, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger, Bokeem Woodbine, James DuMont, Marc Maron and Michael Gaston joined the cast of the film.

In November 2018, Colleen Camp joined the cast of the film.

The film was released by Netflix on March 6, 2020.

At their first quarter meeting in April 2020, Netflix reported 85 million views from the film over its first six weeks

Filming began in late 2018 in Boston.

The residence of character Cimoli (with whom Spenser is staying) was filmed in the Jones Hill neighborhood of Boston, on the street where actor Wahlberg lived during his teenage years.

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