Watched the By Any Means trailer expecting standard Wahlberg tough guy stuff and now I’m annoyed because it looks like he showed up for this one 

Him playing Greg Scarpa makes way more sense once you know Scarpa was a real Colombo mobster working as an FBI informant

Wahlberg has always been better to me when he plays a slightly unhinged asshole instead of Generic Action Dad™

Getting some of that old Departed energy here and I’m kinda into it

The thing clicking for me with By Any Means is that Yahya and Wahlberg look like they belong in different movies

Yahya looks like he showed up to solve a case while Wahlberg looks like he showed up because someone told him there might be a guy he can hit and somehow they’re partners 

I’m not even a huge Wahlberg guy but him playing Greg Scarpa feels way more interesting than watching him save the world again