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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

Goofy Mark Wahlberg movie ‘The Family Plan’ plays an endangered family for laughs

When Dan (Mark Wahlberg) goes grocery shopping, baby in tow, he’s unaware he’s about to be attacked by a knife-wielding assassin. (Apple Original Films)

As we’ve learned from substantial fare such as “A History of Violence” (2005) and “Nobody” (2021), even if a former hitman succeeds in disappearing from the grid, changing his identity and forging a new life as a docile husband and father, there will come a time when the past comes crashing through the door.

That scenario is played for laughs in the goofy, occasionally amusing yet tone-deaf and casually violent Apple TV+ film “The Family Plan,” which asks us to buy into the premise that going on the run with your family without telling them why and killing a series of foes along the way is a great way to reignite the sexual flames with your wife and bond with your sullen teenage kids.

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