Assisted by tech support in Overwatch (John Malkovich), Silva and his team battle the hugely corrupt government operatives sent to stop them and kill Noor before he leaves the country in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives.ĭespite the welcome addition of Raid and The Night Comes For Us star Iko Uwais, as physical a stunt performer as any in recent memory, Mile 22 pretty much wastes its cast in a thunderous hail of bullets and speechifying. Distance between embassy and airport? 22 miles. At the US Embassy in an unnamed Asian country, former Special Forces operative Li Noor (Iko Uwais) hands himself in with information contained on a self-destructing hard drive that will give the team the location of the caesium – if they can exfiltrate him from the country. Wahlberg stars as James Silva, a horrible human being who spends his time as a black ops agent working largely unsanctioned for the US Government, on a mission to locate several pounds of deadly caesium which could be used as a weapon of mass destruction. There’s a sense of shock and awe to Mile 22, the only thing being it’s shocking how unwatchably awful this thing is, and awe inspiring how far off the rails Berg’s career appears to have run.

Directed by Peter Berg, once again delving into torn-from-the-headlines realism and grit alongside obligatory muse Mark Wahlberg (this film is the fourth in which the pair have teamed up) goes for broke in a mixed-up bullets-and-blood orgy of excess, a lamentably confused plot and heinous characters unable to rise above mediocre direction as this film barrels towards an obnoxiously cruel and irrelevant conclusion. Incomprehensible gibberish masquerading as an espionage thriller, in similar vein to Ridley Scott’s 2008 thriller Body Of Lies, Mile 22 is numb to coherence and demands you avoid understanding whatever is going on.

Synopsis: An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country. Principal Cast : Mark Wahlberg, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Ronda Rousey, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Carlo Alban, Terry Kinney, Poorna Jagannathan, Sam Medina, Natasha Goubskaya, Alexandra Vino, Cedric Gervais, Chae Rin Lee, Emily Skeggs.

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