Daylight scenes pop with colour and detail, while night shots conjure up deep, murky shadows. Picture: Patriots Day runs onto Blu-ray with a largely appealing 2.40:1-framed 1080p encode that shows every sign of having been shot using digital cameras.

As polished as Patriots Day's fictionalised approach may be, perhaps its story would have been better told as a documentary. The film closes with interviews with some of the real people caught up in the bombing tragedy. Yang) and later pops up at the final hiding place of the second bomber. Yet this composite character also serves as a stand-in for every single cop who was involved in the events depicted, which leads to an unbelievable string of coincidences – Saunders is on the scene when the bombing takes place, is the one cop who can tell the FBI which buildings in the vicinity have CCTV, takes the statement of carjacking victim Dun Meng (Jimmy O. Patriots Day also centres around a few of those caught up in the bombing, most notably young couple Jessica Kensky (Rachel Brosnahan) and Patrick Downes (Christopher O'Shea).īy creating the character of Tommy Saunders, Berg and Wahlberg give viewers a specific human focus for every aspect of the story. Saunders goes on to witness all of the key events in the ensuing search for the suspects led by FBI Special Agent Richard DesLauriers (Kevin Bacon) and local Police Commissioner Ed Davis (John Goodman).

Wahlberg plays Tommy Saunders, a fictional sergeant in the Boston Police Department who is stationed at the finish line when the bombs explode. This time around the focus is the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the subsequent manhunt for the two perpetrators of the incident. Hot on the heels of the excellent Deepwater Horizon comes another true-life thriller from director Peter Berg and actor/producer Mark Wahlberg.

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