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Action, Espionage, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Mark Wahlberg, Overwatch, Peter Berg, Review, South-East Asia, Thriller
D: Peter Berg / 94m
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Ronda Rousey, Carlo Alban, Terry Kinney, Emily Skeggs
If you’re thinking of going to see Mile 22 at your local cinema, please bear in mind the following:
Option 1: Seeing the movie (not recommended).
Option 2: Seeing something else.
Option 3: Staying at home and seeing something else.
Listing the ways in which Mile 22 is bad is waaaay too easy, so here’s a challenge: if you do go and see it, see how many ways you can come up with – you’ll run out of fingers and toes long before the end.
Rating: 3/10 – an appalling waste of time and money and effort, Mile 22 is so shallow and conceited it actually thinks it’s making a statement, though if you can work out what that statement is, you’re better than Berg and screenwriter Lea Carpenter, who clearly don’t have a clue between them; Wahlberg’s performance is excruciating (and probably his worst yet), while once again, the action/fight scenes have been so badly stitched together in the editing suite as to make no visual sense whatsoever, and the whole thing is as convincing as the brush strip stuck to Malkovich’s head.
Haven’t heard a lot of good things about this one. Such a shame, since Berg’s previous three films were all pretty good.
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I really liked Patriots Day but this is such a letdown it’s hard to believe the Two Bergs made both movies…
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