Review: 'The Union' lacks a certain charm that could help it be something more than the Netflix movie playing in the background.
This image released by Netflix shows Halle Berry, left, and Mark Wahlberg in a scene from "The Union." “The Union,” an action comedy with Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, should have been more fun. Or more exciting. It certainly had a lot working in its favor, including big stars and a budget for globetrotting.
“The Union,” streaming Friday, is a fairy tale — a very male one, about a middle-aged everyman whose life never quite got started and who gets recruited to be a spy out of the blue. Mike is a broke construction worker still living in his hometown of Patterson, New Jersey, with his mother, hanging with his old friends in bars.
The idea came from Stephen Levinson, Wahlberg’s longtime business partner, who together helped bring another middle of the road Netflix action-comedy to life in “Spenser Confidential.” And it was directed very basically by Julian Farino, a journeyman director who helmed many episodes of “Entourage,” and written by Joe Barton and David Guggenheim. And there is a sort of charming fantasy about the notion that anyone could be an international spy given the opportunity and a few weeks of training.
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