Play Dirty [Movie Review]

Play Dirty [Movie Review] | Just reading the title, one will know that the movie is going to be about crime or crime related.

Seeing Mark as the lead actor, I expect the movie to be full of action too. 

SYNOPSIS

Play Dirty (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Mark Wahlberg, LaKeith Stanfield, Rosa Salazar, Keegan-Michael Key, Chukwudi Iwuji, Nat Wolff, Gretchen Mol, Thomas Jane & Tony Shalhoub
• Director: Shane Black
• Producer: Jules Daly, Marc Toberoff & James W. Skotchdopole
• Production Company: Team Downey, Big Red Films & Toberoff Productions

• Distributed by: Amazon MGM Studios
• Release date: October 1, 2025
• Running time: 128 minutes
• Rating: R (For strong violence, pervasive language, some sexual content and nudity)
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 6.0/ 10
• Tomatometer: 49%
• Metascore: 46%
• Robert Downey Jr. was set to reunite with Shane Black after Kiss Kiss Bang Bang*and Iron Man 3, but mysteriously bowed out, paving the way for Mark Wahlberg to take his place.
• Filmed in Sydney New South Wales Australia and New York City, New York.

There's a saying 'honor among thieves'. 

But in such a demanding world, loyalty is as fragile as glass and Parker knows it better than anyone. 

When he and his crew pull off a daring racetrack heist, a desperate employee guns down one of the thieves, wounds Parker’s partner Philly, and makes off with the loot, with his family in tow. Parker hunts him through the racetrack chaos, ends it with a bullet through his head, bribes the terrified widow and vanishes with the cash.

But betrayal comes fast and brutal. At their safe house, their getaway driver, Zen, turns on them, gunning down the crew. She even manages to shoot Parker, throwing him off the river edge. Against all odds, he survives. And now he has only vengeance on his mind. 

With help from Grofield, a fellow thief moonlighting as a failing theatre owner, Parker hunts Zen down. 

While tracking Zen, he uncovers a tangled web of mercenaries, dirty politics and a $1 billion treasure buried beneath layers of corruption. When he finally finds Zen, Zen sells him another interesting job - she is robbing the UN of a shipwreck treasure for her country’s disgraced president, De La Paz.

Unwillingly, Parker strikes an uneasy alliance with Zen and her war-hardened comrades. Their plan is pure chaos wrapped in precision: hijack the treasure after the Outfit, New York’s ruthless crime syndicate, steals it first. 

Every player in this deadly game wants the same thing: the glittering sunken figurehead worth half a billion dollars. But in Parker’s world, greed comes with consequences. 

Will Parker succeed in a complicated world of lies and thievery? Can he trust anyone?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• An action movie that has James Bond and Now You See Me vibes. 
• A light crime movie, with some funny moments in it.

What I Don't Like:

• Zen is not villain enough - at times appear too weak.  
• Too many parties involved - I was kinda lost at times - who is this person and which group does he belong to?

Will I Watch It Again: I don't mind watching it again. 

Overall: 3.9/ 5.0

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