A-Lister’s Ludicrous Fake Nose Dooms Disastrous Crime Drama

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Paramount Pictures For any drama claiming to be “based on a true story,” veracity is important—but only to a degree. Case in point: By Any Means, which, in an effort to make star Mark Wahlberg look like his real-life counterpart, opts to saddle him with one of the most ridiculous and unnecessary prosthetic noses in cinema history. Since no one has ever heard of his character Gregory Scarpa, the film’s stab at physical photorealism is both…