Pun Salad

This, I probably don't need to tell you, is the based-on-reality movie describing days around the 2013 bombing near the Boston Marathon finish line. It's grim, powerful, and chilling, as was the reality.

The one noticeable fictionalization is the casting of star Mark Wahlberg as "Tommy Saunders", a composite of a bunch of Boston cops. He's present at the bombing, at the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, meets Big Papi on the day of the "this is our fucking city" speech at Fenway, and a lot of places in between. No actual Boston cop did all that, but that's OK, he's Mark Wahlberg.

Nothing more to say, really, except the movie's a good reminder that all the happy talk about the unlikelihod of being killed in a terrorist attack (Example: You’re more likely to be fatally crushed by furniture than killed by a terrorist.) doesn't make terror any less real.

The IMDB parents guide counts about 150 f-bombs, and David Ortiz only has one; most of the others are from law enforcement.