it's a fantastically over-the-top, drive-in B-movie for the streaming generation; "Spenser Confidential" is a movie that knows exactly what it wants to do and goes about doing exactly that
a clumsy, unfunny adaptation of a much-loved literary crime series; it's an action-comedy-mystery-thriller that manages to spectacularly fail at all the above, an algorithmic abomination that's as coldly constructed as it is clumsily made
"Spenser Confidential" is too enthralled by its leading man to create any secrets worth keeping. The result is a junky, paint-by-numbers crime saga that stacks up to "The Town" like "Cats" does to "Singin' in the Rain"