Play Dirty is Prime Video’s latest attempt to ride the seemingly endless heist-movie wave. This time, Mark Wahlberg and Lakeith Stanfield team up to bring Richard Stark’s legendary thief Parker back to the screen. With Shane Black in the director’s chair, I had high hopes that a straight-to-streaming action-comedy might finally deliver. Unfortunately, those expectations were crushed within the first ten minutes and the film never really recovered.

Neither the action nor the comedy ever really land. The set pieces suffer from the kind of laughably bad CGI that has, unfortunately, become a hallmark of Prime original movies. I admit it, I did manage a couple of chuckles here and there, but only because I was laughing at the film, not with it.

Wahlberg and Stanfield’s performances are equally forgettable. I can’t quite decide whether to blame the weak material or their paycheck-collecting delivery, but either way, nothing here sticks. Their work is bland, unmemorable, and destined to be forgotten as soon as the credits roll.

There’s just enough happening in the central heist to keep it moderately engaging, so audiences might not be reaching for their phones too often. Still, the two-hour runtime feels bloated, stretching thin what little entertainment value it has.

In the end, Play Dirty isn’t one I’d recommend. If you’re craving a heist fix this weekend, there are far better and far more memorable options out there.